Method and apparatus for performing measurement using discovery reference signal (DRS) in wireless communication system

ABSTRACT

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for performing a measurement through a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving DRS Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC) information in relation to a DRS measurement time from a base station (BS) in order to perform a measurement using the DRS; receiving the DRS from one or more cells in a specific carrier frequency based on the received DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information; performing a measurement through the received DRS; and reporting the measurement result to the BS.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the National Phase of PCT International ApplicationNo. PCT/KR2015/005046, filed on May 20, 2015, which claims priorityunder 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application Nos. 62/003,035,filed on May 27, 2014, 62/004,194 filed on May 28, 2014 and 62/039,879filed on Aug. 20, 2014, all of which are hereby expressly incorporatedby reference into the present application.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to wireless communication systems, andmore particularly, to a method for performing a measurement based on adiscovery reference signal (DRS) in a wireless communication system andan apparatus for supporting the same.

BACKGROUND ART

The mobile communication system is developed to provide the voiceservice while guaranteeing the activity of a user. However, the mobilecommunication system is extended to the data service in addition to thevoice service. Currently, since the shortage of resource is caused owingto the explosive traffic increase and users requires higher services,more developed mobile communication system is needed.

The requirement for the next mobile communication system should supportthe acceptance of explosive data traffic increase, the innovativeincrease of transmission rate per user, the acceptance of the number ofconnection devices which are dramatically increased, very low End-to-EndLatency, high energy efficiency. To this end, various techniques havebeen researched such as the Dual Connectivity, the Massive MultipleInput Multiple Output (Massive MIMO), the In-band Full Duplex, theNon-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), the Super wideband support, theDevice Networking, and so on.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

The small cell enhancement technique supports the small cell on/offmechanism in order to save the energy of the small cell and to decreasethe interference on a neighbor cell. In order to determine the state ofsmall cell in a user equipment, the small cell broadcasts a discoverysignal periodically regardless of the on/off state.

In order to solve the problem above, an object of the present disclosureis to provide a method for performing a measurement based on thediscovery signal on the basis of the information in relation to adiscovery measurement time, and for reporting the measurement result.

In addition, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a methodfor performing an accurate DRS measurement by identifying whether thesubframe on which the DRS is transmitted and received is an MBSFNsubframe based on MBSFN subframe configuration information of a neighborcell.

In addition, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a methodfor constructing the information related to the MBSFN subframeconfiguration of a neighbor cell as the bitmap of simpler form and fortransmitting it to a user equipment.

The technical objects to attain in the present invention are not limitedto the above-described technical objects and other technical objectswhich are not described herein will become apparent to those skilled inthe art from the following description.

Technical Solution

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method forperforming a measurement through a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS)performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication systemincludes receiving DRS Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC)information in relation to a DRS measurement time from a base station(BS) in order to perform a measurement using the DRS; receiving the DRSfrom one or more cells in a specific carrier frequency based on thereceived DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information; performing ameasurement through the received DRS; and reporting the measurementresult to the BS, where the DRS Measurement Timing Configurationinformation includes at least one of DRS measurement durationinformation that represents a length of DRS measurement window, DRSmeasurement offset information that represents a starting point of theDRS measurement window or DRS measurement period information thatrepresents an occurrence period of the DRS measurement window.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the DRS Measurement TimingConfiguration information further includes DRS occasion information thatrepresents a duration in which the DRS is transmitted or received withinthe DRS measurement window.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the DRS Measurement TimingConfiguration information is received from the BS with being configuredfor each cell and/or each carrier frequency.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the method further includesreceiving MBMS Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configurationinformation in relation to an MBSFN subframe configuration for the oneor more cells.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation is information representing whether a subframe in the DRSmeasurement window is MBSFN subframe or non-MBSFN subframe.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the DRS is received in thenon-MBSFN subframe through multiple symbols, and wherein the DRS isreceived in the MBSFN subframe through only a single symbol.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation is included in neighbor cell configuration (NeighCellConfig)information.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the neighbor cell configuration(NeighCellConfig) information is transmitted through System InformationBlock (SIB) 3, SIB 5 or MeasObjectEUTRA.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the method further includesreceiving Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol (IDMS) informationindicating a DRS measurement symbol from the BS.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the Indication of DRSMeasurement Symbol information is expressed by a bitmap form.

In addition, in the present disclosure, each bit value of the Indicationof DRS Measurement Symbol information corresponds to each of subframeswithin the DRS measurement window.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the Indication of DRSMeasurement Symbol information does not include a bit valuecorresponding to a subframe on which synchronization signal is received.

In addition, in the present disclosure, each bit value of the Indicationof DRS Measurement Symbol information represents whether a subframecorresponding to the each bit value is MBSFN subframe or non-MBSFNsubframe.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the Indication of DRSMeasurement Symbol information is received separately from the MBSFNsubframe configuration information.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the DRS is a signal for discoveron/off state of the one or more cells, and is either one of CommonReference Signal (CRS) or Channel State Information-RS (CSI-RS).

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a radio frequency(RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal; and a processorfunctionally connected to the RF unit and controlling the UE, whereinthe processor is configured to perform: receiving DRS Measurement TimingConfiguration (DMTC) information in relation to a DRS measurement timefrom a base station (BS) in order to perform a measurement using theDRS; receiving the DRS from one or more cells in a specific carrierfrequency based on the received DRS Measurement Timing Configurationinformation; performing a measurement through the received DRS; andreporting the measurement result to the BS, where the DRS MeasurementTiming Configuration information includes at least one of DRSmeasurement duration information that represents a length of DRSmeasurement window, DRS measurement offset information that represents astarting point of the DRS measurement window or DRS measurement periodinformation that represents an occurrence period of the DRS measurementwindow.

Technical Effects

According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system,a user equipment may smoothly performs a measurement based on thediscovery signal and report the measurement result.

In addition, according to the present invention, there is an effect ofpreventing a user equipment from performing unnecessary DRS measurementby accurately acquiring the subframe and/or the symbol on which the DRSis transmitted and received based on the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation of a neighbor cell.

In addition, according to the present invention, there is an effect ofefficiently using resource by constructing the information related tothe MBSFN subframe configuration of a neighbor cell as the bitmap ofsimpler form.

The technical effects of the present invention are not limited to thetechnical effects described above, and other technical effects notmentioned herein may be understood to those skilled in the art from thedescription below.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included herein as a part of thedescription for help understanding the present invention, provideembodiments of the present invention, and describe the technicalfeatures of the present invention with the description below.

FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of a radio frame in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid for a downlink slot ina wireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

FIG. 3 illustrates a structure of downlink subframe in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 4 illustrates a structure of uplink subframe in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 5 shows the configuration of a known MIMO communication system.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a channel from a plurality of transmissionantennas to a single reception antenna.

FIG. 7 shows an example of component carriers and a carrier aggregationin a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the presentinvention may be applied.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a downlink HARQ process in an LTE FDDsystem

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an uplink HARQ process in an LTE FDDsystem.

FIG. 10 illustrates a radio frame structure for transmitting theSynchronization Signal (SS) in a wireless communication system to whichthe present invention may be applied.

FIG. 11 illustrates a structure that two sequences for generating thesecondary synchronization signal are mapped in the physical region withbeing interleaved.

FIG. 12 illustrates a reference signal pattern mapped to a downlinkresource block pair in the wireless communication system to which thepresent invention can be applied.

FIG. 13 illustrates a periodic transmission scheme of CSI-RS in awireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

FIG. 14 illustrates an aperiodic transmission scheme of CSI-RS in awireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating the CSI-RS configuration in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a small cell cluster/group to whichthe present invention may be applied.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a measurement method based on the DRSproposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating another example of a measurementmethod based on the DRS proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating another example of a measurementmethod based on the DRS proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method forperforming a measurement based on the DRS proposed in the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 21 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communicationapparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BEST MODE FOR INVENTION

Hereafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will bedescribed in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Adetailed description to be disclosed hereinbelow together with theaccompanying drawing is to describe embodiments of the present inventionand not to describe a unique embodiment for carrying out the presentinvention. The detailed description below includes details in order toprovide a complete understanding. However, those skilled in the art knowthat the present invention can be carried out without the details.

In some cases, in order to prevent a concept of the present inventionfrom being ambiguous, known structures and devices may be omitted or maybe illustrated in a block diagram format based on core function of eachstructure and device.

In the specification, a base station means a terminal node of a networkdirectly performing communication with a terminal. In the presentdocument, specific operations described to be performed by the basestation may be performed by an upper node of the base station in somecases. That is, it is apparent that in the network constituted bymultiple network nodes including the base station, various operationsperformed for communication with the terminal may be performed by thebase station or other network nodes other than the base station. A basestation (BS) may be generally substituted with terms such as a fixedstation, Node B, evolved-NodeB (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS),an access point (AP), and the like. Further, a ‘terminal’ may be fixedor movable and be substituted with terms such as user equipment (UE), amobile station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station(MSS), a subscriber station (SS), an advanced mobile station (AMS), awireless terminal (WT), a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device, aMachine-to-Machine (M2M) device, a Device-to-Device (D2D) device, andthe like.

Hereinafter, a downlink means communication from the base station to theterminal and an uplink means communication from the terminal to the basestation. In the downlink, a transmitter may be a part of the basestation and a receiver may be a part of the terminal. In the uplink, thetransmitter may be a part of the terminal and the receiver may be a partof the base station.

Specific terms used in the following description are provided to helpappreciating the present invention and the use of the specific terms maybe modified into other forms within the scope without departing from thetechnical spirit of the present invention.

The following technology may be used in various wireless access systems,such as code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonalfrequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier-FDMA(SC-FDMA), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and the like. The CDMAmay be implemented by radio technology universal terrestrial radioaccess (UTRA) or CDMA2000. The TDMA may be implemented by radiotechnology such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)/GeneralPacket Radio Service (GPRS)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution(EDGE). The OFDMA may be implemented as radio technology such as IEEE802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, E-UTRA (Evolved UTRA),and the like. The UTRA is a part of a universal mobile telecommunicationsystem (UMTS). 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long termevolution (LTE) as a part of an evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using evolved-UMTSterrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) adopts the OFDMA in a downlink and theSC-FDMA in an uplink. LTE-advanced (A) is an evolution of the 3GPP LTE.

The embodiments of the present invention may be based on standarddocuments disclosed in at least one of IEEE 802, 3GPP, and 3GPP2 whichare the wireless access systems. That is, steps or parts which are notdescribed to definitely show the technical spirit of the presentinvention among the embodiments of the present invention may be based onthe documents. Further, all terms disclosed in the document may bedescribed by the standard document.

3GPP LTE/LTE-A is primarily described for clear description, buttechnical features of the present invention are not limited thereto.

General System

FIG. 1 illustrates a structure a radio frame in a wireless communicationsystem to which the present invention can be applied.

In 3GPP LTE/LTE-A, radio frame structure type 1 may be applied tofrequency division duplex (FDD) and radio frame structure type 2 may beapplied to time division duplex (TDD) are supported.

FIG. 1(a) exemplifies radio frame structure type 1. The radio frame isconstituted by 10 subframes. One subframe is constituted by 2 slots in atime domain. A time required to transmit one subframe is referred to asa transmissions time interval (TTI). For example, the length of onesubframe may be 1 ms and the length of one slot may be 0.5 ms.

One slot includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency divisionmultiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain and includes multipleresource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain. In 3GPP LTE, since OFDMA isused in downlink, the OFDM symbol is used to express one symbol period.The OFDM symbol may be one SC-FDMA symbol or symbol period. The resourceblock is a resource allocation wise and includes a plurality ofconsecutive subcarriers in one slot.

FIG. 1(b) illustrates frame structure type 2. Radio frame type 2 isconstituted by 2 half frames, each half frame is constituted by 5subframes, a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), andan uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS), and one subframe among them isconstituted by 2 slots. The DwPTS is used for initial cell discovery,synchronization, or channel estimation in a terminal. The UpPTS is usedfor channel estimation in a base station and to match uplinktransmission synchronization of the terminal. The guard period is aperiod for removing interference which occurs in uplink due tomulti-path delay of a downlink signal between the uplink and thedownlink.

In frame structure type 2 of a TDD system, an uplink-downlinkconfiguration is a rule indicating whether the uplink and the downlinkare allocated (alternatively, reserved) with respect to all subframes.Table 1 shows the uplink-downlink configuration.

TABLE 1 Downlink- Uplink- to-Uplink Downlink Switch-point Subframenumber configuration periodicity 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 5 ms D S U U U DS U U U 1 5 ms D S U U D D S U U D 2 5 ms D S U D D D S U D D 3 10 ms  DS U U U D D D D D 4 10 ms  D S U U D D D D D D 5 10 ms  D S U D D D D DD D 6 5 ms D S U U U D S U U D

Referring to Table 1, for each sub frame of the radio frame, ‘D’represents a subframe for downlink transmission, ‘U’ represents asubframe for uplink transmission, and ‘S’ represents a special subframeconstituted by three fields such as the DwPTS, the GP, and the UpPTS.The uplink-downlink configuration may be divided into 7 configurationsand the positions and/or the numbers of the downlink subframe, thespecial subframe, and the uplink subframe may vary for eachconfiguration.

A time when the downlink is switched to the uplink or a time when theuplink is switched to the downlink is referred to as a switching point.Switch-point periodicity means a period in which an aspect of the uplinksubframe and the downlink subframe are switched is similarly repeatedand both 5 ms or 10 ms are supported. When the period of thedownlink-uplink switching point is 5 ms, the special subframe S ispresent for each half-frame and when the period of the downlink-uplinkswitching point is 5 ms, the special subframe S is present only in afirst half-frame.

In all configurations, subframes #0 and #5 and the DwPTS are intervalsonly the downlink transmission. The UpPTS and a subframe justsubsequently to the subframe are continuously intervals for the uplinktransmission.

The uplink-downlink configuration may be known by both the base stationand the terminal as system information. The base station transmits onlyan index of configuration information whenever the uplink-downlinkconfiguration information is changed to announce a change of anuplink-downlink allocation state of the radio frame to the terminal.Further, the configuration information as a kind of downlink controlinformation may be transmitted through a physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH) similarly to other scheduling information and may becommonly transmitted to all terminals in a cell through a broadcastchannel as broadcasting information.

The structure of the radio frame is just one example and the numbersubcarriers included in the radio frame or the number of slots includedin the subframe and the number of OFDM symbols included in the slot maybe variously changed.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid for one downlink slotin the wireless communication system to which the present invention canbe applied.

Referring to FIG. 2, one downlink slot includes the plurality of OFDMsymbols in the time domain. Herein, it is exemplarily described that onedownlink slot includes 7 OFDM symbols and one resource block includes 12subcarriers in the frequency domain, but the present invention is notlimited thereto.

Each element on the resource grid is referred to as a resource elementand one resource block includes 12×7 resource elements. The number ofresource blocks included in the downlink slot, NDL is subordinated to adownlink transmission bandwidth.

A structure of the uplink slot may be the same as that of the downlinkslot.

FIG. 3 illustrates a structure of a downlink subframe in the wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 3, a maximum of three OFDM symbols in the first slotof the sub frame is a control region to which control channels areallocated and residual OFDM symbols is a data region to which a physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH) is allocated. Examples of the downlinkcontrol channel used in the 3GPP LTE include a Physical Control FormatIndicator Channel (PCFICH), a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH),a Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH), and the like.

The PFCICH is transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of the subframe andtransports information on the number (that is, the size of the controlregion) of OFDM symbols used for transmitting the control channels inthe subframe. The PHICH which is a response channel to the uplinktransports an Acknowledgement (ACK)/Not-Acknowledgement (NACK) signalfor a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). Control informationtransmitted through a PDCCH is referred to as downlink controlinformation (DCI). The downlink control information includes uplinkresource allocation information, downlink resource allocationinformation, or an uplink transmission (Tx) power control command for apredetermined terminal group.

The PDCCH may transport A resource allocation and transmission format(also referred to as a downlink grant) of a downlink shared channel(DL-SCH), resource allocation information (also referred to as an uplinkgrant) of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), paging information in apaging channel (PCH), system information in the DL-SCH, resourceallocation for an upper-layer control message such as a random accessresponse transmitted in the PDSCH, an aggregate of transmission powercontrol commands for individual terminals in the predetermined terminalgroup, a voice over IP (VoIP). A plurality of PDCCHs may be transmittedin the control region and the terminal may monitor the plurality ofPDCCHs. The PDCCH is constituted by one or an aggregate of a pluralityof continuous control channel elements (CCEs). The CCE is a logicalallocation wise used to provide a coding rate depending on a state of aradio channel to the PDCCH. The CCEs correspond to a plurality ofresource element groups. A format of the PDCCH and a bit number ofusable PDCCH are determined according to an association between thenumber of CCEs and the coding rate provided by the CCEs.

The base station determines the PDCCH format according to the DCI to betransmitted and attaches the control information to a cyclic redundancycheck (CRC) to the control information. The CRC is masked with a uniqueidentifier (referred to as a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI))according to an owner or a purpose of the PDCCH. In the case of a PDCCHfor a specific terminal, the unique identifier of the terminal, forexample, a cell-RNTI (C-RNTI) may be masked with the CRC. Alternatively,in the case of a PDCCH for the paging message, a paging indicationidentifier, for example, the CRC may be masked with a paging-RNTI(P-RNTI). In the case of a PDCCH for the system information, in moredetail, a system information block (SIB), the CRC may be masked with asystem information identifier, that is, a system information (SI)-RNTI.The CRC may be masked with a random access (RA)-RNTI in order toindicate the random access response which is a response to transmissionof a random access preamble.

FIG. 4 illustrates a structure of an uplink subframe in the wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 4, the uplink subframe may be divided into the controlregion and the data region in a frequency domain. A physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH) transporting uplink control information isallocated to the control region. A physical uplink shared channel(PUSCH) transporting user data is allocated to the data region. Oneterminal does not simultaneously transmit the PUCCH and the PUSCH inorder to maintain a single carrier characteristic.

A resource block (RB) pair in the subframe are allocated to the PUCCHfor one terminal. RBs included in the RB pair occupy differentsubcarriers in two slots, respectively. The RB pair allocated to thePUCCH frequency-hops in a slot boundary.

Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO)

An MIMO technology uses multiple transmitting (Tx) antennas and multiplereceiving (Rx) antennas by breaking from generally one transmittingantenna and one receiving antenna up to now. In other words, the MIMOtechnology is a technology for achieving capacity increment orcapability enhancement by using a multiple input multiple output antennaat a transmitter side or a receiver side of the wireless communicationsystem. Hereinafter, “MIMO” will be referred to as “multiple inputmultiple output antenna”.

In more detail, the MIMO technology does not depend on one antenna pathin order to receive one total message and completes total data bycollecting a plurality of data pieces received through multipleantennas. Consequently, the MIMO technology may increase a data transferrate within in a specific system range and further, increase the systemrange through a specific data transfer rate.

In next-generation mobile communication, since a still higher datatransfer rate than the existing mobile communication is required, it isanticipated that an efficient multiple input multiple output technologyis particularly required. In such a situation, an MIMO communicationtechnology is a next-generation mobile communication technology whichmay be widely used in a mobile communication terminal and a relay andattracts a concern as a technology to overcome a limit of a transmissionamount of another mobile communication according to a limit situationdue to data communication extension, and the like.

Meanwhile, the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology amongvarious transmission efficiency improvement technologies which have beenresearched in recent years as a method that may epochally improve acommunication capacity and transmission and reception performancewithout additional frequency allocation or power increment has thelargest attention in recent years.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a general multiple input multipleoutput (MIMO) communication system.

Referring to FIG. 5, when the number of transmitting antennas increasesto NT and the number of receiving antennas increases to NR at the sametime, since a theoretical channel transmission capacity increases inproportion to the number of antennas unlike a case using multipleantennas only in a transmitter or a receiver, a transfer rate may beimproved and frequency efficiency may be epochally improved. In thiscase, the transfer rate depending on an increase in channel transmissioncapacity may theoretically increase to a value acquired by multiplying amaximum transfer rate (Ro) in the case using one antenna by a rateincrease rate (Ri) given below.R _(i)=min(N _(T) ,N _(R))  [Equation 1]

That is, for example, in an MIMO communication system using fourtransmitting antennas and four receiving antennas, a transfer rate whichis four times higher than a single antenna system may be acquired.

Such an MIMO antenna technology may be divided into a spatial diversityscheme increasing transmission reliability by using symbols passingthrough various channel paths and a spatial multiplexing schemeimproving the transfer rate by simultaneously transmitting multiple datasymbols by using multiple transmitting antennas. Further, a researchinto a scheme that intends to appropriately acquire respectiveadvantages by appropriately combining two schemes is also a field whichhas been researched in recent years.

The respective schemes will be described below in more detail.

First, the spatial diversity scheme includes a space-time block codingseries and a space-time Trelis coding series scheme simultaneously usinga diversity gain and a coding gain. In general, the Trelis is excellentin bit error rate enhancement performance and code generation degree offreedom, but the space-time block code is simple in operationalcomplexity. In the case of such a spatial diversity gain, an amountcorresponding to a multiple (NT×NR) of the number (NT) of transmittingantennas and the number (NR) of receiving antennas may be acquired.

Second, the spatial multiplexing technique is a method that transmitsdifferent data arrays in the respective transmitting antennas and inthis case, mutual interference occurs among data simultaneouslytransmitted from the transmitter in the receiver. The receiver receivesthe data after removing the interference by using an appropriate signalprocessing technique. A noise removing scheme used herein includes amaximum likelihood detection (MLD) receiver, a zero-forcing (ZF)receiver, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver, a diagonal-belllaboratories layered space-time (D-BLAST), a vertical-bell laboratorieslayered space-time), and the like and in particular, when channelinformation may be known in the transmitter side, a singular valuedecomposition (SVD) scheme, and the like may be used.

Third, a technique combining the space diversity and the spatialmultiplexing may be provided. When only the spatial diversity gain isacquired, the performance enhancement gain depending on an increase indiversity degree is gradually saturated and when only the spatialmultiplexing gain is acquired, the transmission reliability deterioratesin the radio channel. Schemes that acquire both two gains while solvingthe problem have been researched and the schemes include a space-timeblock code (Double-STTD), a space-time BICM (STBICM), and the like.

In order to describe a communication method in the MIMO antenna systemdescribed above by a more detailed method, when the communication methodis mathematically modeled, the mathematical modeling may be shown asbelow.

First, it is assumed that NT transmitting antennas and NR receivingantennas are present as illustrated in FIG. 5.

First, in respect to a transmission signal, when NT transmittingantennas are provided, since the maximum number of transmittableinformation is NT, NT may be expressed as a vector given below.s=└s₁,s₂, . . . ,s_(N) _(T) ┘^(T)  [Equation 2]

Meanwhile, transmission power may be different in the respectivetransmission information s1, s2, . . . , sNT and in this case, when therespective transmission power is P1, P2, . . . , PNT, the transmissioninformation of which the transmission power is adjusted may be expressedas a vector given below.ŝ=└ŝ₁,ŝ₂, . . . ,ŝ_(N) _(T) ┘^(T)=└P₁s₁,P₂s₂, . . . ,P_(N) _(T) s_(N)_(T) ┘^(T)  [Equation 3]

Further, ŝ may be expressed as described below as a diagonal matrix P ofthe transmission power.└0P_(N) _(T) ┘└s_(N) _(T) ┘  [Equation 4]

Meanwhile, the information vector ŝ of which the transmission power isadjusted is multiplied by a weight matrix W to constitute NTtransmission signals x1, x2, . . . xNT which are actually transmitted.Herein, the weight matrix serves to appropriately distribute thetransmission information to the respective antennas according to atransmission channel situation, and the like. The transmission signalsx1, x2, . . . , xNT may be expressed as below by using a vector x.└x_(N) _(T) ┘└w_(N) _(T) ₁w_(N) _(T) ₂ . . . w_(N) _(T) _(N) _(T)┘└ŝ_(N) _(T) ┘  [Equation 5]

Herein, wij represents a weight between the i-th transmitting antennaand j-th transmission information and W represents the weight as thematrix. The matrix W is called a weight matrix or a precoding matrix.

Meanwhile, the transmission signal x described above may be divided intotransmission signals in a case using the spatial diversity and a caseusing the spatial multiplexing.

In the case using the spatial multiplexing, since different signals aremultiplexed and sent, all elements of an information vector s havedifferent values, while when the spatial diversity is used, since thesame signal is sent through multiple channel paths, all of the elementsof the information vector s have the same value.

Of course, a method mixing the spatial multiplexing and the spatialdiversity may also be considered. That is, for example, a case may alsobe considered, which transmits the same signal by using the spatialdiversity through three transmitting antennas and different signals aresent by the spatial multiplexing through residual transmitting antennas.

Next, when NR receiving antennas are provided, received signals y1, y2,. . . , yNR of the respective antennas are expressed as a vector y asdescribed below.y=[y₁,y₂, . . . ,y_(N) _(R) ]^(T)  [Equation 6]

Meanwhile, in the case of modeling the channel in the MIMO antennacommunication system, respective channels may be distinguished accordingto transmitting and receiving antenna indexes and a channel passingthrough a receiving antenna i from a transmitting antenna j will berepresented as hij. Herein, it is noted that in the case of the order ofthe index of hij, the receiving antenna index is earlier and thetransmitting antenna index is later.

The multiple channels are gathered into one to be expressed even asvector and matrix forms. An example of expression of the vector will bedescribed below.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a channel from multiple transmittingantennas to one receiving antenna.

As illustrated in FIG. 6, a channel which reaches receiving antenna Ifrom a total of NT transmitting antennas may be expressed as below.h_(i) ^(T)=[h_(i1),h_(i2), . . . ,h_(iN) _(T) ]  [Equation 7]

Further, all of channels passing through NR receiving antennas from NTtransmitting antennas may be shown as below through matrix expressionshown in Equation given above.└h_(N) _(R) ^(T)┘└h_(N) _(R) ₁h_(N) _(R) ₂ . . . h_(N) _(R) _(N) _(T)┘  [Equation 8]

Meanwhile, since additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is added afterpassing through a channel matrix H given above in an actual channel,white noises n1, n2, . . . , nNR added to NR receiving antennas,respectively are expressed as below.n=[n₁,n₂, . . . ,n_(N) _(R) ]^(T)  [Equation 9]

Each of the transmission signal, the reception signal, the channel, andthe white noise in the MIMO antenna communication system may beexpressed through a relationship given below by modeling thetransmission signal, the reception signal, the channel, and the whitenoise.└y_(N) _(R) ┘└h_(N) _(R) ₁h_(N) _(R) ₂ . . . h_(N) _(R) _(N) _(T)┘└x_(N) _(T) ┘└n_(N) _(R) ┘  [Equation 10]

The numbers of rows and columns of the channel matrix H representing thestate of the channel are determined by the numbers of transmitting andreceiving antennas. In the case of the channel matrix H, the number ofrows becomes equivalent to NR which is the number of receiving antennasand the number of columns becomes equivalent to NR which is the numberof transmitting antennas. That is, the channel matrix H becomes an NR×NRmatrix.

In general, a rank of the matrix is defined as the minimum number amongthe numbers of independent rows or columns. Therefore, the rank of thematrix may not be larger than the number of rows or columns. As anequation type example, the rank (rank(H)) of the channel matrix H islimited as below.rank(H)≤min(N _(T) ,N _(R))  [Equation 11]

Further, when the matrix is subjected to Eigen value decomposition, therank may be defined as not 0 but the number of Eigen values among theEigen values. By a similar method, when the rank is subjected tosingular value decomposition, the rank may be defined as not 0 but thenumber of singular values. Accordingly, a physical meaning of the rankin the channel matrix may be the maximum number which may send differentinformation in a given channel.

In the present specification, a ‘rank’ for MIMO transmission representsthe number of paths to independently transmit the signal at a specifictime and in a specific frequency resource and ‘the number of layers’represents the number of signal streams transmitted through each path.In general, since the transmitter side transmits layers of the numbercorresponding to the number of ranks used for transmitting the signal,the rank has the same meaning as the number layers if not particularlymentioned.

Carrier Aggregation

A communication environment considered in embodiments of the presentinvention includes multi-carrier supporting environments. That is, amulti-carrier system or a carrier aggregation system used in the presentinvention means a system that aggregates and uses one or more componentcarriers (CCs) having a smaller bandwidth smaller than a target band atthe time of configuring a target wideband in order to support awideband.

In the present invention, multi-carriers mean aggregation of(alternatively, carrier aggregation) of carriers and in this case, theaggregation of the carriers means both aggregation between continuouscarriers and aggregation between non-contiguous carriers. Further, thenumber of component carriers aggregated between the downlink and theuplink may be differently set. A case in which the number of downlinkcomponent carriers (hereinafter, referred to as DL CC′) and the numberof uplink component carriers (hereinafter, referred to as ‘UL CC’) arethe same as each other is referred to as symmetric aggregation and acase in which the number of downlink component carriers and the numberof uplink component carriers are different from each other is referredto as asymmetric aggregation. The carrier aggregation may be usedmixedly with a term such as the carrier aggregation, the bandwidthaggregation, spectrum aggregation, or the like.

The carrier aggregation configured by combining two or more componentcarriers aims at supporting up to a bandwidth of 100 MHz in the LTE-Asystem. When one or more carriers having the bandwidth than the targetband are combined, the bandwidth of the carriers to be combined may belimited to a bandwidth used in the existing system in order to maintainbackward compatibility with the existing IMT system. For example, theexisting 3GPP LTE system supports bandwidths of 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, and20 MHz and a 3GPP LTE-advanced system (that is, LTE-A) may be configuredto support a bandwidth larger than 20 MHz by using on the bandwidth forcompatibility with the existing system. Further, the carrier aggregationsystem used in the preset invention may be configured to support thecarrier aggregation by defining a new bandwidth regardless of thebandwidth used in the existing system.

The LTE-A system uses a concept of the cell in order to manage a radioresource.

The carrier aggregation environment may be called a multi-cellenvironment. The cell is defined as a combination of a pair of adownlink resource (DL CC) and an uplink resource (UL CC), but the uplinkresource is not required. Therefore, the cell may be constituted by onlythe downlink resource or both the downlink resource and the uplinkresource. When a specific terminal has only one configured serving cell,the cell may have one DL CC and one UL CC, but when the specificterminal has two or more configured serving cells, the cell has DL CCsas many as the cells and the number of UL CCs may be equal to or smallerthan the number of DL CCs.

Alternatively, contrary to this, the DL CC and the UL CC may beconfigured. That is, when the specific terminal has multiple configuredserving cells, a carrier aggregation environment having UL CCs more thanDL CCs may also be supported. That is, the carrier aggregation may beappreciated as aggregation of two or more cells having different carrierfrequencies (center frequencies). Herein, the described ‘cell’ needs tobe distinguished from a cell as an area covered by the base stationwhich is generally used.

The cell used in the LTE-A system includes a primary cell (PCell) and asecondary cell (SCell. The P cell and the S cell may be used as theserving cell. In a terminal which is in an RRC_CONNECTED state, but doesnot have the configured carrier aggregation or does not support thecarrier aggregation, only one serving constituted by only the P cell ispresent. On the contrary, in a terminal which is in the RRC_CONNECTEDstate and has the configured carrier aggregation, one or more servingcells may be present and the P cell and one or more S cells are includedin all serving cells.

The serving cell (P cell and S cell) may be configured through an RRCparameter. PhysCellId as a physical layer identifier of the cell hasinteger values of 0 to 503. SCellIndex as a short identifier used toidentify the S cell has integer values of 1 to 7. ServCellIndex as ashort identifier used to identify the serving cell (P cell or S cell)has the integer values of 0 to 7. The value of 0 is applied to the Pcell and SCellIndex is previously granted for application to the S cell.That is, a cell having a smallest cell ID (alternatively, cell index) inServCellIndex becomes the P cell.

The P cell means a cell that operates on a primary frequency(alternatively, primary CC). The terminal may be used to perform aninitial connection establishment process or a connectionre-establishment process and may be designated as a cell indicatedduring a handover process. Further, the P cell means a cell whichbecomes the center of control associated communication among servingcells configured in the carrier aggregation environment. That is, theterminal may be allocated with and transmit the PUCCH only in the P cellthereof and use only the P cell to acquire the system information orchange a monitoring procedure. An evolved universal terrestrial radioaccess (E-UTRAN) may change only the P cell for the handover procedureto the terminal supporting the carrier aggregation environment by usingan RRC connection reconfiguration message (RRCConnectionReconfigutaion)message of an upper layer including mobile control information(mobilityControlInfo).

The S cell means a cell that operates on a secondary frequency(alternatively, secondary CC). Only one P cell may be allocated to aspecific terminal and one or more S cells may be allocated to thespecific terminal. The S cell may be configured after RRC connectionestablishment is achieved and used for providing an additional radioresource. The PUCCH is not present in residual cells other than the Pcell, that is, the S cells among the serving cells configured in thecarrier aggregation environment. The E-UTRAN may provide all systeminformation associated with a related cell which is in an RRC_CONNECTEDstate through a dedicated signal at the time of adding the S cells tothe terminal that supports the carrier aggregation environment. A changeof the system information may be controlled by releasing and adding therelated S cell and in this case, the RRC connection reconfiguration(RRCConnectionReconfigutaion) message of the upper layer may be used.The E-UTRAN may perform having different parameters for each terminalrather than broadcasting in the related S cell.

After an initial security activation process starts, the E-UTRAN addsthe S cells to the P cell initially configured during the connectionestablishment process to configure a network including one or more Scells. In the carrier aggregation environment, the P cell and the S cellmay operate as the respective component carriers. In an embodimentdescribed below, the primary component carrier (PCC) may be used as thesame meaning as the P cell and the secondary component carrier (SCC) maybe used as the same meaning as the S cell.

FIG. 7 illustrates examples of a component carrier and carrieraggregation in the wireless communication system to which the presentinvention can be applied.

FIG. 7a illustrates a single carrier structure used in an LTE system.The component carrier includes the DL CC and the UL CC. One componentcarrier may have a frequency range of 20 MHz.

FIG. 7b illustrates a carrier aggregation structure used in the LTEsystem. In the case of FIG. 7b , a case is illustrated, in which threecomponent carriers having a frequency magnitude of 20 MHz are combined.Each of three DL CCs and three UL CCs is provided, but the number of DLCCs and the number of UL CCs are not limited. In the case of carrieraggregation, the terminal may simultaneously monitor three CCs, andreceive downlink signal/data and transmit uplink signal/data.

When N DL CCs are managed in a specific cell, the network may allocate M(M≤N) DL CCs to the terminal. In this case, the terminal may monitoronly M limited DL CCs and receive the DL signal. Further, the networkgives L (L≤M≤N) DL CCs to allocate a primary DL CC to the terminal andin this case, UE needs to particularly monitor L DL CCs. Such a schememay be similarly applied even to uplink transmission.

A linkage between a carrier frequency (alternatively, DL CC) of thedownlink resource and a carrier frequency (alternatively, UL CC) of theuplink resource may be indicated by an upper-layer message such as theRRC message or the system information. For example, a combination of theDL resource and the UL resource may be configured by a linkage definedby system information block type 2 (SIB2). In detail, the linkage maymean a mapping relationship between the DL CC in which the PDCCHtransporting a UL grant and a UL CC using the UL grant and mean amapping relationship between the DL CC (alternatively, UL CC) in whichdata for the HARQ is transmitted and the UL CC (alternatively, DL CC) inwhich the HARQ ACK/NACK signal is transmitted.

Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (COMP)

According to a demand of LTE-advanced, CoMP transmission is proposed inorder to improve the performance of the system. The CoMP is also calledco-MIMO, collaborative MIMO, network MIMO, and the like. It isanticipated that the CoMP will improves the performance of the terminalpositioned at a cell edge and improve an average throughput of the cell(sector).

In general, inter-cell interference decreases the performance and theaverage cell (sector) efficiency of the terminal positioned at the celledge in a multi-cell environment in which a frequency reuse index is 1.In order to alleviate the inter-cell interference, the LTE system adoptsa simple passive method such as fractional frequency reuse (FFR) in theLTE system so that the terminal positioned at the cell edge hasappropriate performance efficiency in an interference-limitedenvironment. However, a method that reuses the inter-cell interferenceor alleviates the inter-cell interference as a signal (desired signal)which the terminal needs to receive is more preferable instead ofreduction of the use of the frequency resource for each cell. The CoMPtransmission scheme may be adopted in order to achieve theaforementioned object.

The CoMP scheme which may be applied to the downlink may be classifiedinto a joint processing (JP) scheme and a coordinatedscheduling/beamforming (CS/CB) scheme.

In the JP scheme, the data may be used at each point (base station) in aCoMP wise. The CoMP wise means a set of base stations used in the CoMPscheme. The JP scheme may be again classified into a joint transmissionscheme and a dynamic cell selection scheme.

The joint transmission scheme means a scheme in which the signal issimultaneously transmitted through a plurality of points which are allor fractional points in the CoMP wise. That is, data transmitted to asingle terminal may be simultaneously transmitted from a plurality oftransmission points. Through the joint transmission scheme, the qualityof the signal transmitted to the terminal may be improved regardless ofcoherently or non-coherently and interference with another terminal maybe actively removed.

The dynamic cell selection scheme means a scheme in which the signal istransmitted from the single point through the PDSCH in the CoMP wise.That is, data transmitted to the single terminal at a specific time istransmitted from the single point and data is not transmitted to theterminal at another point in the CoMP wise. The point that transmits thedata to the terminal may be dynamically selected.

According to the CS/CB scheme, the CoMP wise performs beamformingthrough coordination for transmitting the data to the single terminal.That is, the data is transmitted to the terminal only in the servingcell, but user scheduling/beamforming may be determined throughcoordination of a plurality of cells in the CoMP wise.

In the case of the uplink, CoMP reception means receiving the signaltransmitted by the coordination among a plurality of points which aregeographically separated. The CoMP scheme which may be applied to theuplink may be classified into a joint reception (JR) scheme and thecoordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB) scheme.

The JR scheme means a scheme in which the plurality of points which areall or fractional points receives the signal transmitted through thePDSCH in the CoMP wise. In the CS/CB scheme, only the single pointreceives the signal transmitted through the PDSCH, but the userscheduling/beamforming may be determined through the coordination of theplurality of cells in the CoMP wise.

Hybrid-Automatic Repeat and Request (HARQ)

The LTE physical layer supports the HARQ in the PDSCH and the PUSCH, andtransmits the related acknowledgement (ACK) feedback in a separatecontrol channel.

In the LTE FDD system, eight Stop-And-Wait (SAW) HARQ processes aresupported on both the uplink and the downlink in accordance with aconstant round-trip time (RTT) of 8 ms.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a downlink HARQ process in an LTE FDDsystem, and FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an uplink HARQ process inan LTE FDD system.

The respective HARQ processes are defined by a unique HARQ processidentifier of 3 bit size, and individual soft buffer allocation forcombination of retransmitted data is required for a reception end (thatis, UE at the downlink HARQ process, and eNodeB at the uplink HARQprocess).

In addition, it is defined that information such as a new data indicator(NDI), a redundancy version (RV) and a modulation and coding scheme(MCS) fields in the downlink control information for the HARQ processes.The NDI field is toggled whenever a new packet transmission is started.The RV field indicates the RV that is selected for a transmission and aretransmission. The MCS field indicates a modulation and coding methodlevel.

The downlink HARQ process of the LTE system is an adaptive asynchronousscheme. Accordingly, the downlink control information for the HARQprocess is explicitly accompanied per downlink transmission.

On the other hand, the uplink HARQ process of the LTE system is asynchronous scheme, and may be performed adaptively or non-adaptively.Since the uplink non-adaptive HARQ scheme does not accompany signalingof the explicit control information, the sequence such as previously setRV sequence (i.e., 0, 2, 3, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, . . . ) is required for acontinuous packet transmission. However, according to the uplinkadaptive HARQ scheme, the RV is signaled explicitly. In order tominimize the control signaling, the uplink mode in which the RV (or theMCS) is combined with other control information is also supported.

Limited Buffer Rate Matching (LBRM)

Owing to the entire memory required for saving the Log-Likelihood Ratio(LLR) in order to support the HARQ process (throughout all HARQprocesses), that is, the UE HARQ soft buffer size, the complexity in theUE implement is increased.

The object of the Limited Buffer Rate Matching (LBRM) is to maintain thepeak data rates and to minimize the influence on the system performance,and in addition, to decrease the UE HARQ soft buffer size. The LBRMreduces the length of virtual circular buffer of the code block segmentsfor the transmission block (TB) that has a size greater than apredetermined size. Using the LBRM, the mother code rate for the TBbecomes the function of UE soft buffer size that is allocated to the TBsize and the TB. For example, for the UE category that does not supportthe FDD operation and the UE of the lowest category (e.g., UE categories1 and 2 that do not support the spatial multiplexing), the limit on thebuffer is transparent. That is, the LBRM does not cause the reduction ofthe soft buffer. In the case of the UE of high category (i.e., UEcategories 3, 4 and 5), the size of soft buffer is calculated byassuming the buffer decrease of 50% that corresponds to two thirds ofthe mother code rate for eight HARQ processes and the maximum TB. Sincean eNB knows the soft buffer capacity of a UE, the code bit istransmitted in the virtual circular buffer (VCB) that may be stored inthe HARQ soft buffer of the UE for all of the given TB(re)transmissions.

Synchronization Signal (SS)

A UE performs the initial cell search procedure including acquisition oftime and frequency synchronization with the cell and detection of aphysical cell ID of the cell. To this end, the UE may receive, from theeNB, synchronization signals, for example, a primary synchronizationsignal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), establishsynchronization with the eNB, and acquire information such as a cell ID.

FIG. 10 illustrates a radio frame structure for transmitting theSynchronization Signal (SS) in a wireless communication system to whichthe present invention may be applied.

Particularly, FIG. 10 illustrates the radio frame structure fortransmitting the SS and the PBCH in the frequency division duplex (FDD).FIG. 10(a) illustrates a transmission position of the SS and the PBCH inthe radio frame configured with a normal cyclic prefix (CP), and FIG.10(b) illustrates a transmission position of the SS and the PBCH in theradio frame configured with an extended CP.

SSs are divided into a PSS and an SSS. The PSS is used to obtain thetime domain synchronization and/or the frequency domain synchronizationsuch as the OFDM symbol synchronization, the slot synchronization, andso on, and the SSS is used to obtain the frame synchronization, a cellgroup ID and/or a CP configuration (i.e., usage information on thenormal CP or the extended CP) of a cell.

Referring to FIG. 10, the PSS and the SSS in the time domain aretransmitted on two OFDM symbols in every radio frame, respectively.Specifically, the SSs are transmitted on the first slot of subframe 0and the first slot of subframe 5, respectively, in consideration of aGlobal System for Mobile communication (GSM) frame length, 4.6 ms, forfacilitation of inter radio access technology (RAT) measurement. Inparticular, the PSS is transmitted on the last OFDM symbol of the firstslot of subframe 0 and the last OFDM symbol of the first slot ofsubframe 5, and the SSS is transmitted on the second last OFDM symbol ofthe first slot of subframe 0 and the second last OFDM symbol of thefirst slot of subframe 5.

The boundary of a corresponding radio frame may be detected through theSSS. The PSS is transmitted on the last OFDM symbol of a correspondingslot, the SSS is transmitted on the immediately before the OFDM symbolof the PSS. The transmission diversity scheme of the SS uses only asingle antenna port, and is not separately defined in the standard. Thatis, a single antenna port transmission scheme or a transmission schemetransparent to the UE (e.g., the precoding vector switching (PVS), thetime switched diversity (TSTD), and the cyclic delay diversity (CDD))may be used for the transmission diversity of the SS.

The PSS is transmitted on every 5 ms, and accordingly, the UE mayrecognize that the corresponding subframe is one of subframe 0 andsubframe 5 by detecting the PSS, but may not specifically identify thesubframe as subframe 0 or subframe 5. Accordingly, the UE is not capableof recognizing a boundary of radio frames with the PSS alone. That is,the frame synchronization cannot be acquired with the PSS alone. The UEdetects the boundary of radio frames by detecting the SSS transmittedtwice with different sequences in one radio frame.

In the frequency domain, the PSS and the SSS are mapped to six RBspositioned on the center of the downlink system bandwidth. In adownlink, the entire RBs includes different number of RBs (e.g., 6 RBsto 110 RBs) depending on the system bandwidth, but a UE may detect thePSS and the SSS in the same way since the PSS and the SSS are mapped to6 RBs positioned on the center of the downlink system bandwidth.

Both of the PSS and the SSS include the sequence that has the length of62. Accordingly, the PSS and the SSS are mapped to 62 subcarriers on thecenter, which are located at opposite sides of the DC subcarrier among 6RBs, and the DC subcarrier and each of 5 subcarriers located at oppositeside ends are not used.

A UE may obtain the physical layer cell ID from a specific sequence ofthe PSS and the SSS. That is, the combination of 3 PSSs and 168 SSSs,the SS may represent total 504 specific physical layer cell IDs.

In other words, the physical layer cell IDs are grouped into 168physical-layer cell-ID groups that include three specific IDs in eachgroup such that each of the physical layer cell IDs becomes a part ofonly one physical-layer cell-ID group. Accordingly, the physical layercell ID Ncell ID (=3N(1)ID+N(2)ID) is specifically defined by the numberN(1) ID within the range of 0 to 167 that represents the physical-layercell-ID group and the number N(2) ID within the range of 0 to 2 thatrepresents the physical-layer ID in the physical-layer cell-ID group.

A UE may know one of three specific physical-layer IDs by detecting thePSS and may recognize one of 168 physical layer cell IDs related to thephysical-layer ID by detecting the SSS.

The PSS is generated based on the Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence that includesthe length of 63 which is defined in the frequency domain.

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{d_{u}(n)} = e^{{- j}\frac{\pi\;{{un}{({n + 1})}}}{N_{ZC}}}} & \;\end{matrix} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 12} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

The ZC sequence is defined by Equation 12. And the sequence elementn=31, corresponding to the DC subcarrier, is punctured. In Equation 12,N_(zc)=63.

The remaining 9 subcarriers among 6 RBs (=72 subcarriers) in the centerportion of the system bandwidth are always transmitted with zero value,which leads to the ease in designing the filter for performingsynchronization.

In order to define total three PSSs, the values u=25, 29 and 34 are usedin Equation 12. In this case, since 29 and 34 are in conjugated symmetryrelation, two correlations may be simultaneously performed. Herein, theconjugate symmetry means the relation shown in Equation 13 below. Usingthe characteristics, the implementation of one-shot correlator for u=29and 34 is available, which may decrease about 33.3% in overall amount ofoperations.d _(u)(n)=(−1)^(n)(d _(N) _(ZC) _(−u)(n))*, when N _(ZC) is even number.d _(u)(n)=(d _(N) _(ZC) _(−u)(n))*, when N _(ZC) is oddnumber.  [Equation 13]

The SSS is generated based on the M-sequence. Each SSS sequence isgenerated by concatenating SSC 1 sequence and SSC 2 sequence, which istwo interleaved sequences, of which length is 31 in the frequencydomain. By combining two sequences, 168 cell group IDs are transmitted.The m-sequence as the SSS sequence is robust in the frequency selectiveenvironment, and may be transformed to the high-speed m-sequence usingthe Fast Hadamard Transform, thereby the amount of operations beingdecreased. In addition, the configuration of SSS using two short codesis proposed to decrease the amount of operations of UE.

FIG. 11 illustrates a structure that two sequences for generating thesecondary synchronization signal are mapped in the physical region withbeing interleaved.

When two m-sequences used for generating the SSS sign are defined by SSS1 and SSS 2, in the case that the SSS (SSS 1, SSS 2) of subframe 0transmits the cell group ID with the combination, the SSS (SSS 2, SSS 1)of subframe 5 is transmitted with being swapped, thereby distinguishingthe 10 ms frame boundary. In this case, the SSS sign uses the generationpolynomial x⁵+x²+1, and total 31 signs may be generated through thecircular shift.

In order to improve the reception performance, two different PSS-basedsequences are defined and scrambled to the SSS, and scrambled to SSS 1and SSS 2 with different sequences. Later, by defining the SSS 1-basedscrambling sign, the scrambling is performed to SSS 2. In this case, thesign of SSS is exchanged in a unit of 5 ms, but the PSS-based scramblingsign is not exchanged. The PSS-based scrambling sign is defined by sixcircular shift versions according to the PSS index in the m-sequencegenerated from the generation polynomial x⁵+x²+1, and the SSS 1-basedscrambling sign is defined by eight circular shift versions according tothe SSS 1 index in the m-sequence generated from the generationpolynomial x⁵+x⁴+x²+x¹+1.

Reference Signal (RS)

In the wireless communication system, since the data is transmittedthrough the radio channel, the signal may be distorted duringtransmission. In order for the receiver side to accurately receive thedistorted signal, the distortion of the received signal needs to becorrected by using channel information. In order to detect the channelinformation, a signal transmitting method know by both the transmitterside and the receiver side and a method for detecting the channelinformation by using an distortion degree when the signal is transmittedthrough the channel are primarily used. The aforementioned signal isreferred to as a pilot signal or a reference signal (RS).

Recently, when packets are transmitted in most of mobile communicationsystems, multiple transmitting antennas and multiple receiving antennasare adopted to increase transceiving efficiency rather than a singletransmitting antenna and a single receiving antenna. When the data istransmitted and received by using the MIMO antenna, a channel statebetween the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna need to bedetected in order to accurately receive the signal. Therefore, therespective transmitting antennas need to have individual referencesignals.

Reference signal in a wireless communication system can be mainlycategorized into two types. In particular, there are a reference signalfor the purpose of channel information acquisition and a referencesignal used for data demodulation. Since the object of the formerreference signal is to enable a UE (user equipment) to acquire a channelinformation in DL (downlink), the former reference signal should betransmitted on broadband. And, even if the UE does not receive DL datain a specific subframe, it should perform a channel measurement byreceiving the corresponding reference signal. Moreover, thecorresponding reference signal can be used for a measurement formobility management of a handover or the like. The latter referencesignal is the reference signal transmitted together when a base stationtransmits DL data. If a UE receives the corresponding reference signal,the UE can perform channel estimation, thereby demodulating data. And,the corresponding reference signal should be transmitted in a datatransmitted region.

The DL reference signals are categorized into a common reference signal(CRS) shared by all terminals for an acquisition of information on achannel state and a measurement associated with a handover or the likeand a dedicated reference signal (DRS) used for a data demodulation fora specific terminal. Information for demodulation and channelmeasurement may be provided by using the reference signals. That is, theDRS is used only for data demodulation only, while the CRS is used fortwo kinds of purposes including channel information acquisition and datademodulation.

The receiver side (that is, terminal) measures the channel state fromthe CRS and feeds back the indicators associated with the channelquality, such as the channel quality indicator (CQI), the precodingmatrix index (PMI), and/or the rank indicator (RI) to the transmittingside (that is, base station). The CRS is also referred to as acell-specific RS. On the contrary, a reference signal associated with afeed-back of channel state information (CSI) may be defined as CSI-RS.

The DRS may be transmitted through resource elements when datademodulation on the PDSCH is required. The terminal may receive whetherthe DRS is present through the upper layer and is valid only when thecorresponding PDSCH is mapped. The DRS may be referred to as theUE-specific RS or the demodulation RS (DMRS).

FIG. 12 illustrates a reference signal pattern mapped to a downlinkresource block pair in the wireless communication system to which thepresent invention can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 12, as a unit in which the reference signal is mapped,the downlink resource block pair may be expressed by one subframe in thetimedomain×12 subcarriers in the frequency domain. That is, one resourceblock pair has a length of 14 OFDM symbols in the case of a normalcyclic prefix (CP) (FIG. 12a ) and a length of 12 OFDM symbols in thecase of an extended cyclic prefix (CP) (FIG. 12b ). Resource elements(REs) represented as ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, and ‘3’ in a resource block latticemean the positions of the CRSs of antenna port indexes ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’,and ‘3’, respectively and resource elements represented as ‘D’ means theposition of the DRS.

Hereinafter, when the CRS is described in more detail, the CRS is usedto estimate a channel of a physical antenna and distributed in a wholefrequency band as the reference signal which may be commonly received byall terminals positioned in the cell. That is, the CRS is transmitted ineach subframe across a broadband as a cell-specific signal. Further, theCRS may be used for the channel quality information (CSI) and datademodulation.

The CRS is defined as various formats according to an antenna array atthe transmitter side (base station). The RSs are transmitted based onmaximum 4 antenna ports depending on the number of transmitting antennasof a base station in the 3GPP LTE system (for example, release-8). Thetransmitter side has three types of antenna arrays of three singletransmitting antennas, two transmitting antennas, and four transmittingantennas. For instance, in case that the number of the transmittingantennas of the base station is 2, CRSs for antenna #1 and antenna #2are transmitted. For another instance, in case that the number of thetransmitting antennas of the base station is 4, CRSs for antennas #1 to#4 are transmitted.

When the base station uses the single transmitting antenna, a referencesignal for a single antenna port is arrayed.

When the base station uses two transmitting antennas, reference signalsfor two transmitting antenna ports are arrayed by using a time divisionmultiplexing (TDM) scheme and/or a frequency division multiplexing (FDM)scheme. That is, different time resources and/or different frequencyresources are allocated to the reference signals for two antenna portswhich are distinguished from each other.

Moreover, when the base station uses four transmitting antennas,reference signals for four transmitting antenna ports are arrayed byusing the TDM and/or FDM scheme. Channel information measured by adownlink signal receiving side (terminal) may be used to demodulate datatransmitted by using a transmission scheme such as single transmittingantenna transmission, transmission diversity, closed-loop spatialmultiplexing, open-loop spatial multiplexing, or multi-user MIMO.

In the case where the MIMO antenna is supported, when the referencesignal is transmitted from a specific antenna port, the reference signalis transmitted to the positions of specific resource elements accordingto a pattern of the reference signal and not transmitted to thepositions of the specific resource elements for another antenna port.That is, reference signals among different antennas are not duplicatedwith each other.

A rule of mapping the CRS to the resource block is defined as below.

$\begin{matrix}{{k = {{6\; m} + {\left( {v + v_{shift}} \right)\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 6}}}\text{}l = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{0,{N_{symb}^{DL} - 3}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\}} \\1 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {2,3} \right\}}\end{matrix}m} = 0},1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},{{{2 \cdot N_{RB}^{DL}} - {1m^{\prime}}} = {{m + N_{RB}^{\max,{DL}} - {N_{RB}^{DL}v}} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}0 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = {{0\mspace{14mu}{and}\mspace{14mu} l} = 0}} \\3 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = {{0\mspace{14mu}{and}\mspace{14mu} l} \neq 0}} \\3 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = {{1\mspace{14mu}{and}\mspace{14mu} l} = 0}} \\0 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = {{1\mspace{14mu}{and}\mspace{14mu} l} \neq 0}} \\{3\left( {n_{s\;}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} \right)} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = 2} \\{3 + {3\left( {n_{s}\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} \right)}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} p} = 3}\end{matrix}v_{shift}} = {N_{ID}^{cell}\;{mod}\mspace{11mu} 6}} \right.}}} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 14} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 14, k and l represent the subcarrier index and the symbolindex, respectively and p represents the antenna port. N_(symb) ^(DL)represents the number of OFDM symbols in one downlink slot and N_(RB)^(DL) represents the number of radio resources allocated to thedownlink. n_(s) represents a slot index and, N_(ID) ^(cell) represents acell ID. mod represents an modulo operation. The position of thereference signal varies depending on the v_(shift) value in thefrequency domain. Since v_(shift) depends on the cell ID, the positionof the reference signal has various frequency shift values according tothe cell.

In more detail, the position of the CRS may be shifted in the frequencydomain according to the cell in order to improve channel estimationperformance through the CRS. For example, when the reference signal ispositioned at an interval of three subcarriers, reference signals in onecell are allocated to a 3k-th subcarrier and a reference signal inanother cell is allocated to a 3k+1-th subcarrier. In terms of oneantenna port, the reference signals are arrayed at an interval of sixresource elements in the frequency domain and separated from a referencesignal allocated to another antenna port at an interval of threeresource elements.

In the time domain, the reference signals are arrayed at a constantinterval from symbol index 0 of each slot. The time interval is defineddifferently according to a cyclic shift length. In the case of thenormal cyclic shift, the reference signal is positioned at symbolindexes 0 and 4 of the slot and in the case of the extended CP, thereference signal is positioned at symbol indexes 0 and 3 of the slot. Areference signal for an antenna port having a maximum value between twoantenna ports is defined in one OFDM symbol. Therefore, in the case oftransmission of four transmitting antennas, reference signals forreference signal antenna ports 0 and 1 are positioned at symbol indexes0 and 4 (symbol indexes 0 and 3 in the case of the extended CP) andreference signals for antenna ports 2 and 3 are positioned at symbolindex 1 of the slot. The positions of the reference signals for antennaports 2 and 3 in the frequency domain are exchanged with each other in asecond slot.

Hereinafter, when the DRS is described in more detail, the DRS is usedfor demodulating data. A precoding weight used for a specific terminalin the MIMO antenna transmission is used without a change in order toestimate a channel associated with and corresponding to a transmissionchannel transmitted in each transmitting antenna when the terminalreceives the reference signal.

The 3GPP LTE system (for example, release-8) supports a maximum of fourtransmitting antennas and a DRS for rank 1 beamforming is defined. TheDRS for the rank 1 beamforming also means a reference signal for antennaport index 5.

A rule of mapping the DRS to the resource block is defined as below.Equation 15 shows the case of the normal CP and Equation 14 shows thecase of the extended CP.

$\begin{matrix}{{k = {{\left( k^{\prime} \right)\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} N_{sc}^{RB}} + {N_{sc}^{RB} \cdot n_{PRB}}}}k^{\prime} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{{4m^{\prime}} + v_{shift}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} l} \in \left\{ {2,3} \right\}} \\{{4m^{\prime}} + {\left( {2 + v_{shift}} \right)\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 4}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} l} \in \left\{ {5,6} \right\}}\end{matrix}l} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}3 & {l^{\prime} = 0} \\6 & {l^{\prime} = 1} \\2 & {l^{\prime} = 2} \\5 & {l^{\prime} = 3}\end{matrix}l^{\prime}} = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{0,1} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} n_{s}\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} = 0} \\{2,3} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} n_{s}\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} = 1}\end{matrix}m^{\prime}} = 0},1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},{{{3N_{RB}^{PDSCH}} - {1v_{shift}}} = {N_{ID}^{cell}\;{mod}\mspace{11mu} 3}}}\mspace{14mu} \right.} \right.} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 15} \right\rbrack \\{{k = {{\left( k^{\prime} \right)\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} N_{sc}^{RB}} + {N_{sc}^{RB} \cdot n_{PRB}}}}k^{\prime} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{{3m^{\prime}} + v_{shift}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} l} = 4} \\{{3m^{\prime}} + {\left( {2 + v_{shift}} \right)\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 3}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} l} = 1}\end{matrix}l} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}4 & {l^{\prime} \in \left\{ {0,2} \right\}} \\1 & {l^{\prime} = 1}\end{matrix}l^{\prime}} = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}0 & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} n_{s}\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} = 0} \\{1,2} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} n_{s}\mspace{11mu}{mod}\mspace{11mu} 2} = 1}\end{matrix}m^{\prime}} = 0},1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},{{{4N_{RB}^{PDSCH}} - {1v_{shift}}} = {N_{ID}^{cell}\;{mod}\mspace{14mu} 3}}} \right.} \right.} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 16} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equations 15 and 16, k and l represent the subcarrier index and thesymbol index, respectively and p represents the antenna port. N_(sc)^(RB) represents the size of the resource block in the frequency domainand is expressed as the number of subcarriers. n_(PRB) represents thenumber of physical resource blocks. N_(RB) ^(PDSCH) represents afrequency band of the resource block for the PDSCH transmission. n_(s)represents the slot index and N_(ID) ^(cell) represents the cell ID. modrepresents the modulo operation. The position of the reference signalvaries depending on the v_(shift) value in the frequency domain. Sincev_(shift) depends on the cell ID, the position of the reference signalhas various frequency shift values according to the cell.

The LTE-A system which is an evolved version of the LTE system shouldsupport maximum eight transmitting antennas for downlink transmission.Accordingly, reference signals for maximum eight transmitting antennasshould also be supported. In the LTE system, since the downlinkreference signals are defined for maximum four antenna ports, if thebase station includes four or more downlink transmitting antennas andmaximum eight downlink transmitting antennas in the LTE-A system, thereference signals for these antenna ports should be definedadditionally. The reference signals for maximum eight transmittingantenna ports should be designed for two types of reference signals,i.e., the reference signal for channel measurement and the referencesignal for data demodulation.

One of important considerations in designing the LTE-A system is thebackward compatibility. That is, the backward compatibility means thatthe LTE user equipment should be operated normally even in the LTE-Asystem without any problem and the LTE-A system should also support suchnormal operation. In view of reference signal transmission, thereference signals for maximum eight transmitting antenna ports should bedefined additionally in the time-frequency domain to which CRS definedin the LTE is transmitted on full band of each subframe. However, in theLTE-A system, if reference signal patterns for maximum eighttransmitting antennas are added to full band per subframe in the samemanner as the CRS of the existing LTE system, the RS overhead becomestoo great.

Accordingly, the reference signal designed newly in the LTE-A system maybe divided into two types. Examples of the two types of referencesignals include a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS)(or may be referred to as channel state indication-RS) for channelmeasurement for selection of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and aprecoding matrix index (PMI), and a data demodulation-reference signal(DM-RS) for demodulation of data transmitted to eight transmittingantennas.

The CSI-RS for the channel measurement purpose is designed for channelmeasurement mainly unlike the existing CRS used for channel measurement,handover measurement, and data demodulation. The CSI-RS may also be usedfor handover measurement. Since the CSI-RS is transmitted only to obtainchannel state information, it may not be transmitted per subframe unlikethe CRS of the existing LTE system. Accordingly, in order to reduceoverhead, the CSI-RS may intermittently be transmitted on the time axis.

The DM-RS is dedicatedly transmitted to the UE which is scheduled in thecorresponding time-frequency domain for data demodulation. In otherwords, the DM-RS of a specific UE is only transmitted to the regionwhere the corresponding user equipment is scheduled, i.e., thetime-frequency domain that receives data.

In the LTE-A system, an eNB should transmit the CSI-RSs for all theantenna ports. Since the transmission of CSI-RSs for up to eighttransmission antenna ports in every subframe leads to too much overhead,the CSI-RSs should be transmitted intermittently along the time axis,thereby reducing CSI-RS overhead. Therefore, the CSI-RSs may betransmitted periodically at every integer multiple of one subframe, orin a predetermined transmission pattern. The CSI-RS transmission periodor pattern of the CSI-RSs may be configured by the eNB.

In order to measure the CSI-RSs, a UE should have knowledge of theinformation for each of the CSI-RS antenna ports in the cell to whichthe UE belong such as the transmission subframe index, thetime-frequency position of the CSI-RS resource element (RE) in thetransmission subframe, the CSI-RS sequence, and the like.

In the LTE-A system, an eNB should transmit each of the CSI-RSs formaximum eight antenna ports, respectively. The resources used fortransmitting the CSI-RS of different antenna ports should be orthogonal.When an eNB transmits the CSI-RS for different antenna ports, by mappingthe CSI-RS for each of the antenna ports to different REs, the resourcesmay be orthogonally allocated in the FDM/TDM scheme. Otherwise, theCSI-RSs for different antenna ports may be transmitted in the CDM schemewith being mapped to the mutually orthogonal codes.

When an eNB notifies the information of the CSI-RS to the UE in its owncell, the information of the time-frequency in which the CSI-RS for eachantenna port is mapped should be notified. Particularly, the informationincludes the subframe numbers on which the CSI-RS is transmitted, theperiod of the CSI-RS being transmitted, the subframe offset in which theCSI-RS is transmitted, the OFDM symbol number in which the CSI-RS RE ofa specific antenna is transmitted, the frequency spacing, the offset orshift value of RE on the frequency axis.

FIG. 13 illustrates a periodic transmission scheme of CSI-RS in awireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

As shown in FIG. 13, for an eNB that transmits the CSI-RS, thetransmission period of the corresponding eNB is 10 (ms or subframes),and the transmission offset of the CSI-RS is 3 (subframes). The eNB hasdifferent offset values such that the CSI-RS of several cells should beevenly distributed on the time. The eNB in which the CSI-RS istransmitted in the period of 10 ms has ten offset values of 0 to 9. Theoffset values represent the value of subframes on which the eNB that hasa specific period actually starts the CSI-RS transmission. When the eNBnotifies the period and the offset value of the CSI-RS to a UE, the UEmeasures the CSI-RS of the eNB on the corresponding position using thevalue and reports the information such as CQI/PMI/RI, etc. to the eNB.The all types of the information related to the CSI-RS are cell-specificinformation.

FIG. 14 illustrates an aperiodic transmission scheme of CSI-RS in awireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

FIG. 14 exemplifies the scheme that the CSI-RS is transmitted with atransmission subframe pattern. The CSI-RS transmission pattern includes10 subframes, and whether to transmit the CSI-RS is designated by 1 bitindicator in each subframe.

Generally, following two schemes are considered as the scheme that aneNB notifies the CSI-RS configuration to a UE.

First, a first scheme of using the Dynamic BCH (DBCH) signaling may beconsidered.

The first scheme is the scheme that an eNB broadcasts the information ofthe CSI-RS configuration to UEs. In the LTE system, when an eNB notifiesthe contents for the system information to UEs, the correspondinginformation is transmitted to the Broadcasting Channel (BCH), normally.However, in the case that there are too much contents and it is unableto transmit all of the contents to the BCH, the contents are transmittedin the same way of transmitting normal data, but the PDCCH of thecorresponding data is transmitted by masking CRC using the Systeminformation RNTI (SI-RNTI), not a specific UE ID (e.g., C-RNTI). And,the actual system information is transmitted to the PDSCH region likethe normal unicast data. Then, all of the UE in a cell decodes the PDCCHusing the SI-RNTI, and acquires the system information by decoding thePDSCH indicated by the PDCCH. Such a broadcast scheme is also called theDynamic BCH (DBCH), distinguished from the Physical BCH (PBCH) schemethat is normal broadcast scheme.

The system information broadcasted in the LTE system is divided into twotypes, largely: The Master Information Block (MIB) transmitted to thePBCH and the System Information Block (SIB) transmitted to the PDSCHwith being multiplexed with the normal unicast data. In the LTE system,since the information transmitted in SIB type 1 to SIB type 8 (SIB 1˜SIB8) is already defined, the CSI-RS configuration is transmitted in SIB 9,SIB 10, and so on, that are newly introduced in the LTE-A system.

Next, a second scheme using the RRC signaling may be considered.

The second scheme is the scheme that an eNB notifies the CSI-RSconfiguration to each of UEs using the dedicated RRC signaling. Duringthe process that a UE establishes a connection to the eNB through aninitial access or the handover, the eNB notifies the CSI-RSconfiguration to the corresponding UE through the RRC signaling.Otherwise, the eNB notifies the CSI-RS configuration through an RRCsignaling message that requires a channel state feedback based on theCSI-RS measurement to the UE.

The CSI-RS-Config information element (IE) is used for specifying theCSI-RS configuration.

Table 2 exemplifies the CSI-RS-Config IE.

TABLE 2 -- ASN1START CSI-RS-Config-r10 ::= SEQUENCE {  csi-RS-r10 CHOICE{   release  NULL,   setup  SEQUENCE {    antennaPortsCount-r10  ENUMERATED (an1, an2, an4, an8),    resourceConfig-r10   INTEGER(0..31),    subframeConfig-r10   INTEGER (0..154),    p-C-r10   INTEGER(-8..15)   }  } OPTIONAL,  -- Need ON  zeroTxPowerCSI-RS-r10 CHOICE {  release  NULL,   setup  SEQUENCE {   zeroTxPowerResourceConfigList-r10 BIT STRING (SIZE (16)),   zeroTxPowerSubframeConfig-r10 INTEGER (0..154)   }  } OPTIONAL  --Need ON } -- ASN1STOP

Referring to Table 2, the ‘antennaPortsCount’ field indicates the numberof antenna ports used for transmitting the CSI-RS. The ‘resourceConfig’field indicates the CSI-RS configuration. The ‘SubframeConfig’ field andthe ‘zeroTxPowerSubframeConfig’ field indicate the subframeconfiguration (I_(CSI-RS)) on which the CSI-RS is transmitted.

The ‘zeroTxPowerResourceConfigList’ field indicates the zero-power (ZP)CSI-RS configuration. In the bitmap of 16 bit that configures the‘zeroTxPowerResourceConfigList’ field, the CSI-RS configuration thatcorresponds to the bit configured as ‘1’ may be configured as the ZPCSI-RS.

The ‘p-c’ field represents the parameter (P_(c)) assumed by a ratio ofthe PDSCH Energy Per Resource Element (EPRE) and the CSI-RS EPRE.

The CSI-RS is transmitted through 1, 2, 4 or 8 antenna ports. In thiscase, the antenna port which is used is p=15, p=15, 16, p=15, . . . , 18or p=15, . . . , 22. The CSI-RS may be defined only for the subcarrierinterval Δf=15 kHz.

The CSI-RS sequence may be generated by Equation 17 below.

$\begin{matrix}{{r_{l,n_{s}}(m)} = {{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left( {1 - {2 \cdot {c\left( {2m} \right)}}} \right)} + {j\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left( {{1 - {2 \cdot {c\left( {{2m} + 1} \right)}}},\mspace{79mu}{m = 0},1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},{N_{RB}^{\max,{DL}} - 1}} \right.}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 17} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Herein, r_(l,n) _(s) (m) represents the generated CSI-RS sequence, c(i)represents the pseudo-random, n_(s) is a slot number in a radio frame, lrepresents an OFDM symbol number in a slot, and N_(RB) ^(maxDL)represents the maximum RB number in a downlink bandwidth.

The pseudo-random sequence generator is initialized in every OFDM startas represented by Equation 18 below.c _(init)=2¹⁰·(7·(n _(s)+1)+l+1)·(2·N _(ID) ^(cell)+1)+2·N _(ID) ^(cell)+N _(CP)  [Equation 18]

In Equation 18, N_(ID) ^(cell) represents the cell ID, N_(CP)=1 in thecase of the normal CP and N_(CP)=0 in the case of the extended CP.

In the subframe configured to transmit the CSI-RS, the CSI-RS sequencer_(l,n) _(s) (m) generated through Equation 17 is mapped to thecomplex-valued modulation symbol a_(k,l) ^((p)) that is used as areference symbol on each antenna port (p) as represented by Equation 19below.

$\begin{matrix}{\mspace{79mu}{{a_{k,l}^{(p)} = {w_{l^{''}} \cdot {r_{l,n_{s}}\left( m^{\prime} \right)}}}{k = {k^{\prime} + {12m} + \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{- 0} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {15,16} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 6} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {17,18} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 1} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {19,20} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 7} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {21,22} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 0} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {15,16} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 3} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {17,18} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 6} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {19,20} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}} \\{- 9} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {21,22} \right\}},{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}}\end{matrix}l} = {l^{\prime} + \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}l^{''} & {\mspace{20mu}{{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 0\text{-}19},}} \\\; & {{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}} \\{2l^{''}} & \begin{matrix}{\mspace{20mu}{{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 20\text{-}31},}} \\{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}\end{matrix} \\l^{''} & \begin{matrix}{\mspace{20mu}{{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 0\text{-}27},}} \\{{extended}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}\end{matrix}\end{matrix}\mspace{79mu} w_{l^{''}}} = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}1 & {p \in \left\{ {15,17,19,21} \right\}} \\\left( {- 1} \right)^{l^{''}} & {p \in \left\{ {16,18,20,22} \right\}}\end{matrix}\mspace{20mu} l^{''}} = 0},{{1\mspace{20mu} m} = 0},1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},{{N_{RB}^{DL} - {1\mspace{20mu} m^{\prime}}} = {m + \left\lbrack \frac{N_{RB}^{\max,{DL}} - N_{RB}^{DL}}{2} \right\rbrack}}} \right.} \right.}} \right.}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 19} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 19 above, (k′,l′) (herein, k′ is a subcarrier index in aresource block, and l′ represents an OFDM symbol index in a slot) andthe condition of n_(s) is determined according to the CSI-RSconfiguration shown in Table 3 or Table 4 below.

Table 3 exemplifies the mapping of (k′,l′) according to the CSI-RSconfiguration for the normal CP.

TABLE 3 Number of CSI reference signals configured CSI reference 1 or 24 8 signal n_(s) n_(s) n_(s) configuration (k′, l′) mod 2 (k′, l′) mod 2(k′, l′) mod 2 Frame 0 (9, 5) 0 (9, 5) 0 (9, 5) 0 structure 1 (11, 2)  1(11, 2)  1 (11, 2)  1 type 1 2 (9, 2) 1 (9, 2) 1 (9, 2) 1 and 2 3 (7, 2)1 (7, 2) 1 (7, 2) 1 4 (9, 5) 1 (9, 5) 1 (9, 5) 1 5 (8, 5) 0 (8, 5) 0 6(10, 2)  1 (10, 2)  1 7 (8, 2) 1 (8, 2) 1 8 (6, 2) 1 (6, 2) 1 9 (8, 5) 1(8, 5) 1 10 (3, 5) 0 11 (2, 5) 0 12 (5, 2) 1 13 (4, 2) 1 14 (3, 2) 1 15(2, 2) 1 16 (1, 2) 1 17 (0, 2) 1 18 (3, 5) 1 19 (2, 5) 1 Frame 20 (11,1)  1 (11, 1)  1 (11, 1)  1 structure 21 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1 type2 22 (7, 1) 1 (7, 1) 1 (7, 1) 1 only 23 (10, 1)  1 (10, 1)  1 24 (8, 1)1 (8, 1) 1 25 (6, 1) 1 (6, 1) 1 26 (5, 1) 1 27 (4, 1) 1 28 (3, 1) 1 29(2, 1) 1 30 (1, 1) 1 31 (0, 1) 1

Table 4 exemplifies the mapping of (k′,l′) according to the CSI-RSconfiguration for the extended CP.

TABLE 4 Number of CSI reference signals configured CSI reference 1 or 24 8 signal n_(s) n_(s) n_(s) configuration (k′, l′) mod 2 (k′, l′) mod 2(k′, l′) mod 2 Frame 0 (11, 4)  0 (11, 4)  0 (11, 4) 0 structure 1 (9,4) 0 (9, 4) 0  (9, 4) 0 type 1 2 (10, 4)  1 (10, 4)  1 (10, 4) 1 and 2 3(9, 4) 1 (9, 4) 1  (9, 4) 1 4 (5, 4) 0 (5, 4) 0 5 (3, 4) 0 (3, 4) 0 6(4, 4) 1 (4, 4) 1 7 (3, 4) 1 (3, 4) 1 8 (8, 4) 0 9 (6, 4) 0 10 (2, 4) 011 (0, 4) 0 12 (7, 4) 1 13 (6, 4) 1 14 (1, 4) 1 15 (0, 4) 1 Frame 16(11, 1)  1 (11, 1)  1 (11, 1) 1 structure 17 (10, 1)  1 (10, 1)  1(10, 1) 1 type 2 18 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1  (9, 1) 1 only 19 (5, 1) 1 (5, 1)1 20 (4, 1) 1 (4, 1) 1 21 (3, 1) 1 (3, 1) 1 22 (8, 1) 1 23 (7, 1) 1 24(6, 1) 1 25 (2, 1) 1 26 (1, 1) 1 27 (0, 1) 1

Referring to Table 3 and Table 4, for the CSI-RS transmission, in orderto decrease the inter-cell interference (ICI) in the multi-cellenvironment including the heterogeneous network (HetNet) environment,different configurations of maximum 32 (in the case of normal CP) ormaximum 28 (in the case of extended CP) are defined.

The CSI-RS configuration is different depending on the number of antennaports in a cell and the CP, neighbor cells may have differentconfigurations to the maximum. In addition, the CSI-RS configuration maybe divided into the case of being applied to both the FDD frame and theTDD frame and the case of being applied to only the TDD frame.

Based on Table 3 and Table 4, (k′,l′) and n_(s) are determined accordingto the CSI-RS configuration. By applying these values to Equation 19,the time-frequency resource that each CSI-RS antenna port uses fortransmitting the CSI-RS is determined.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating the CSI-RS configuration in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

Particularly, FIG. 15 exemplifies the CSI-RS configuration (i.e., thecase of normal CP) according to Equation 19 and Table 3.

FIG. 15(a) shows twenty CSI-RS configurations that are usable in theCSI-RS transmission through one or two CSI-RS antenna ports, and FIG.15(b) shows ten CSI-RS configurations that are usable by four CSI-RSantenna ports. FIG. 15(c) shows five CSI-RS configurations that areusable in the CSI-RS transmission through eight CSI-RS antenna ports.

As such, according to each CSI-RS configuration, the radio resource(i.e., RE pair) in which the CSI-RS is transmitted is determined.

When one or two CSI-RS antenna ports are configured for transmitting theCSI-RS for a specific cell, the CSI-RS is transmitted on the radioresource according to the configured CSI-RS configuration among twentyCSI-RS configurations shown in FIG. 15(a).

Similarly, when four CSI-RS antenna ports are configured fortransmitting the CSI-RS for a specific cell, the CSI-RS is transmittedon the radio resource according to the configured CSI-RS configurationamong ten CSI-RS configurations shown in FIG. 15(b). In addition, wheneight CSI-RS antenna ports are configured for transmitting the CSI-RSfor a specific cell, the CSI-RS is transmitted on the radio resourceaccording to the configured CSI-RS configuration among five CSI-RSconfigurations shown in FIG. 15(c).

The CSI-RS for each of the antenna ports is transmitted with being CDMto the same radio resource for each of two antenna ports (i.e., {15,16},{17,18}, {19,20}, {21,22}). As an example of antenna ports 15 and 16,although the respective CSI-RS complex symbols are the same for antennaports 15 and 16, the CSI-RS complex symbols are mapped to the same radioresource with being multiplied by different orthogonal codes (e.g.,Walsh code). To the complex symbol of the CSI-RS for antenna port 15,[1, 1] is multiplied, and [1, −1] is multiplied to the complex symbol ofthe CSI-RS for antenna port 16, and the complex symbols are mapped tothe same radio resource. This procedure is the same for antenna ports{17,18}, {19,20} and {21,22}.

A UE may detect the CSI-RS for a specific antenna port by multiplying acode multiplied by the transmitted code. That is, in order to detect theCSI-RS for antenna port 15, the multiplied code [1 1] is multiplied, andin order to detect the CSI-RS for antenna port 16, the multiplied code[1−1] is multiplied.

Referring to FIGS. 15(a) to (c), when a radio resource is correspondingto the same CSI-RS configuration index, the radio resource according tothe CSI-RS configuration including a large number of antenna portsincludes the radio resource according to the CSI-RS configurationincluding a small number of antenna ports. For example, in the case ofCSI-RS configuration 0, the radio resource for eight antenna portsincludes all of the radio resource for four antenna ports and one or twoantenna ports.

A plurality of CSI-RS configurations may be used in a cell. Zero or oneCSI-RS configuration may be used for the non-zero power (NZP) CSI-RS,and zero or several CSI-RS configurations may be used for the zero powerCSI-RS.

A UE presumes the zero power transmission for the REs (except the caseof being overlapped with the RE that presumes the NZP CSI-RS that isconfigured by a high layer) that corresponds to four CSI-RS column inTable 3 and Table 4 above, for every bit that is configured as ‘1’ inthe Zero Power CSI-RS (ZP-CSI-RS) which is the bitmap of 16 bitsconfigured by a high layer. The Most Significant Bit (MSB) correspondsto the lowest CSI-RS configuration index, and the next bit in the bitmapcorresponds to the next CSI-RS configuration index in order.

The CSI-RS is transmitted in the downlink slot only that satisfies thecondition of n_(s) mod 2 in Table 3 and Table 4 above and the CSI-RSsubframe configuration.

In the case of frame structure type 2 (TDD), in the subframe thatcollides with a special subframe, SS, PBCH or SIB 1(SystemInformationBlockType1) message transmission or the subframe thatis configured to transmit a paging message, the CSI-RS is nottransmitted.

In addition, the RE in which the CSI-RS for a certain antenna port thatis belonged to an antenna port set S (S={15}, S={15,16}, S={17,18},S={19,20} or S={21,22}) is transmitted is not used for transmitting thePDSCH or the CSI-RS of another antenna port.

Since the time-frequency resources used for transmitting the CSI-RS isunable to be used for transmitting data, the data throughput decreasesas the CSI-RS overhead increases. Considering this, the CSI-RS is notconfigured to be transmitted in every subframe, but configured to betransmitted in a certain transmission period that corresponds to aplurality of subframes. In this case, the CSI-RS transmission overheadmay be significantly decreased in comparison with the case that theCSI-RS is transmitted in every subframe.

The subframe period (hereinafter, referred to as ‘CSI-RS transmissionperiod’; T_(CSI-RS)) for transmitting the CSI-RS and the subframe offset(Δ_(CSI-RS)) are represented in Table 5 below.

Table 5 exemplifies the configuration of CSI-RS subframe.

TABLE 5 CSI-RS periodicity CSI-RS subframe offset CSI-RS-SubframeConfigT_(CSI-RS) Δ_(CSI-RS) I_(CSI-RS) (subframes) (subframes) 0-4 5I_(CSI-RS)  5-14 10 I_(CSI-RS)-5 15-34 20 I_(CSI-RS)-15 35-74 40I_(CSI-RS)-35  75-154 80 I_(CSI-RS)-75

Referring to Table 5, according to the CSI-RS subframe configuration(I_(CSI-RS)), the CSI-RS transmission period (T_(CSI-RS)) and thesubframe offset (Δ_(CSI-RS)) are determined.

The CSI-RS subframe configuration in Table 5 is configured as one of the‘SubframeConfig’ field and the ‘zeroTxPowerSubframeConfig’ field inTable 2 above. The CSI-RS subframe configuration may be separatelyconfigured for the NZP CSI-RS and the ZP CSI-RS.

The subframe including the CSI-RS satisfies Equation 20 below.(10n _(f) +└n _(s)/2┘−Δ_(CSI-RS))mod T _(CSI-RS)=0  [Equation 20]

In Equation 20, T_(CSI-RS) represents the CSI-RS transmission period,Δ_(CSI-RS) represents the subframe offset value, n_(f) represents thesystem frame number, and n_(s) represents the slot number.

In the case of a UE to which transmission mode 9 is set for a servingcell, a single CSI-RS resource may be set to the UE. In the case of a UEto which transmission mode 10 is set for a serving cell, one or moreCSI-RS resources may be set to the UE.

For each CSI-RS resource configuration, the following parameters may beset through high layer signaling.

-   -   In the case that transmission mode 10 is set, the CSI-RS        resource configuration identifier    -   The number of CSI-RS ports    -   The CSI-RS configuration (refer to Table 3 and Table 4)    -   The CSI-RS subframe configuration (I_(CSI-RS); refer to Table 5)    -   In the case that transmission mode 9 is set, the transmission        power (P_(c)) for the CSI feedback    -   In the case that transmission mode 10 is set, the transmission        power (P_(c)) for the CSI feedback with respect to each CSI        process. When the CSI subframe sets C_(CSI,0) and C_(CSI,1) are        set by a high layer for the CSI process, P_(c) is set for each        CSI subframe set of the CSI process.    -   The pseudo-random sequence generator parameter (n_(ID))    -   In the case that transmission mode 10 is set, the QCL scrambling        identifier (qcl-ScramblingIdentity-r11) for assuming the Quasi        Co-Located (QCL) type B UE, the CRS port count        (crs-PortsCount-r11), and the high layer parameter        (‘qcl-CRS-Info-r11’) that includes the MBSFN subframe        configuration list (mbsfn-SubframeConfigList-r11) parameter

When the CSI feedback value obtained by a UE has the value in the rangeof [−8, 15] dB, P_(c) is presumed by the ratio of the PDSCH EPRE for theCSI-RS EPRE. Herein, the PDSCH EPRE corresponds to the symbol in whichthe ratio of PDSCH EPRE for the CRS EPRE is ρ_(A).

In the same subframe of a serving cell, the CSI-RS and the PMCH are notconfigured together.

When four CRS antenna ports are configured in frame structure type 2,the CSI-RS configuration index belonged to [20-31] set in the case ofthe normal CP (refer to Table 3) or [16-27] set in the case of theextended CP (refer to Table 4) is not configured to a UE.

A UE may assume that the CSI-RS antenna port of the CSI-RS resourceconfiguration has the QCL relation with the delay spread, the Dopplerspread, the Doppler shift, the average gain and the average delay.

The UE to which transmission mode 10 and QCL type B are configured mayassume that the antenna ports 0 to 3 corresponding to the CSI-RSresource configuration and the antenna ports 15 to 22 corresponding tothe CSI-RS resource configuration have the QCL relation with the Dopplerspread and the Doppler shift.

For the UE to which transmission mode 10 is configured, one or moreChannel-State Information-Interference Measurement (CSI-IM) resourceconfiguration may be set.

The following parameters may be configured for each CSI-IM resourceconfiguration through high layer signaling.

-   -   The ZP CSI-RS configuration (refer to Table 3 and Table 4)    -   The ZP CSI-RS subframe configuration (I_(CSI-RS); refer to Table        5)

The CSI-IM resource configuration is the same as one of the configuredZP CSI-RS resource configuration.

In the same subframe in a serving cell, the CSI-IM resource and the PMCHare not configured simultaneously.

For the UE to which transmission modes 1 to 9 are set, a ZP CSI-RSresource configuration may be set to the UE for the serving cell. Forthe UE to which transmission mode 10 is set, one or more ZP CSI-RSresource configurations may be set to the UE for the serving cell.

The following parameters may be configured for the ZP CSI-RS resourceconfiguration through high layer signaling.

-   -   The ZP CSI-RS configuration list (refer to Table 3 and Table 4)    -   The ZP CSI-RS subframe configuration (I_(CSI-RS); refer to Table        5)

In the same subframe in a serving cell, the ZP CSI-RS resource and thePMCH are not configured simultaneously.

Cell Measurement/Measurement Report

For one or several methods among the several methods (handover, randomaccess, cell search, etc.) for guaranteeing the mobility of UE, the UEreports the result of a cell measurement to an eNB (or network).

In the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, the cell-specific reference signal (CRS)is transmitted through 0, 4, 7 and 11^(th) OFDM symbols in each subframeon the time axis, and used for the cell measurement basically. That is,a UE performs the cell measurement using the CRS that is received from aserving cell and a neighbor cell, respectively.

The cell measurement is the concept that includes the Radio resourcemanagement (RRM) measurement such as the Reference signal receive power(RSRP) that measures the signal strength of the serving cell and theneighbor cell or the signal strength in comparison with total receptionpower, and so on, the Received signal strength indicator (RSSI), theReference signal received quality (RSRQ), and the like and the RadioLink Monitoring (RLM) measurement that may evaluate the radio linkfailure by measuring the link quality from the serving cell.

The RSRP is a linear average of the power distribution of the RE inwhich the CRS is transmitted in a measurement frequency band. In orderto determine the RSRP, CRS (R0) that corresponds to antenna port ‘0’ maybe used. In addition, in order to determine the RSRP, CRS (R1) thatcorresponds to antenna port ‘1’ may be additionally used. The number ofREs used in the measurement frequency band and the measurement durationby a UE in order to determine the RSRP may be determined by the UEwithin the limit that satisfies the corresponding measurement accuracyrequirements. In addition, the power per RE may be determined by theenergy received in the remaining part of the symbol except the CP.

The RSSI is obtained as the linear average of the total reception powerthat is detected from all sources including the serving cell and thenon-serving cell of the co-channel, the interference from an adjacentchannel, the thermal noise, and so on by the corresponding UE in theOFDM symbols including the RS that corresponds to antenna port ‘0’. Whena specific subframe is indicated by high layer signaling for performingthe RSRQ measurement, the RSSI is measured through all OFDM symbols inthe indicated subframes.

The RSRQ is obtained by N×RSRP/RSSI. Herein, N means the number of RBsof the RSSI measurement bandwidth. In addition, the measurement of thenumerator and the denominator in the above numerical expression may beobtained by the same RB set.

A BS may forward the configuration information for the measurement to aUE through high layer signaling (e.g., RRC Connection Reconfigurationmessage).

The RRC Connection Reconfiguration message includes a radio resourceconfiguration dedicated (‘radioResourceConfigDedicated’) InformationElement (IE) and the measurement configuration (‘measConfig’) IE.

The ‘measConfig’ IE specifies the measurement that should be performedby the UE, and includes the configuration information for theintra-frequency mobility, the inter-frequency mobility, the inter-RATmobility as well as the configuration of the measurement gap.

Particularly, the ‘measConfig’ IE includes ‘measObjectToRemoveList’ thatrepresents the list of the measurement object (‘measObject’) that is tobe removed from the measurement and ‘measObjectToAddModList’ thatrepresents the list that is going to be newly added or amended. Inaddition, ‘MeasObjectCDMA2000’, ‘MeasObjctEUTRA’, ‘MeasObjectGERAN’ andso on are included in the ‘measObject’ according to the communicationtechnique.

The ‘RadioResourceConfigDedicated’ IE is used to setup/modify/releasethe Radio Bearer, to change the MAC main configuration, to change theSemi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) configuration and to change thededicated physical configuration.

The ‘RadioResourceConfigDedicated’ IE includes the‘measSubframePattern-Serv’ field that indicates the time domainmeasurement resource restriction pattern for serving cell measurement.In addition, the ‘RadioResourceConfigDedicated’ IE includes‘measSubframeCellList’ indicating the neighbor cell that is going to bemeasured by the UE and ‘measSubframePattern-Neigh’ indicating the timedomain measurement resource restriction pattern for neighbor cellmeasurement.

The time domain measurement resource restriction pattern that isconfigured for the measuring cell (including the serving cell and theneighbor cell) may indicate at least one subframe per radio frame forperforming the RSRQ measurement. The RSRQ measurement is performed onlyfor the subframe indicated by the time domain measurement resourcerestriction pattern that is configured for the measuring cell.

As such, a UE (e.g., 3GPP Rel-10) should measure the RSRQ only in theduration configured by the subframe pattern (‘measSubframePattern-Serv’)for the serving cell measurement and the subframe pattern(‘measSubframePattern-Neigh’) for the neighbor cell measurement.

Although the measurement in the pattern for the RSRQ is not limited, butit is preferable to be measured only in the pattern for the accuracyrequirement.

Measurement Method Based on Discovery Signal

The Research on the techniques regarding the small cell enhancement(SCE) for small cells to cover a relatively very small area using lesspower compared with the existing macro cells is intensively underway inorder to cover the data traffic that is explosively increasing.

The small cell enhancement means a technique for enabling efficientmobility management while covering increasing traffic by denselyarranging small cells in macro cell coverage (or without macro cellcoverage in the case of the inside of a building) and dramaticallyincreasing spectrum efficiency per unit area through close cooperationbetween a macro cell eNB and a small cell eNB or between small celleNBs. In particular, in a certain region such as a so-called hot spot inthe cell, there is a specially high communication demand, and in someregions such as cell edges or coverage holes, the reception of radiowaves may be decreased, so that small cells may be utilized in theregion with high demand for data services such as hot spots orcommunication shadow areas that is not covered by macro cells alone.

The macro cell eNB may be referred to as macro eNB (MeNB), and the smallcell eNB may be referred to as small eNB, secondary eNB (SeNB).

The small cell enhancement supports the small cell on/off mechanism thatmaintains the on-state of the small cell only in the case that a UE isexisted in the small cell coverage for the energy saving of the smallcell and for decreasing the interference on a neighbor cell, otherwise,that maintains the off-state of the small cell.

Since the UE mobility management (e.g., handover, etc.) is performedbased on the frequency (i.e., (component) carrier, cell) of the macrocell, the connection between the UE and the network is not completelydisconnected even though a part of the small cell is in the off-state.

The discovery procedure is required for the small cell in the UE todetermine the on/off state.

For this, regardless of the on/off-state, the small cell is defined totransmit (i.e., broadcast) the discovery signal (or discovery referencesignal; DRS) always.

Hereinafter, in the present disclosure, the discovery signal or thediscovery reference signal is briefly referred to as ‘DRS’.

In other words, the DRS is broadcasted in a predetermined period even inthe case that the small cell is in the off-state. The predeterminedperiod may assumed to be a measurement period, and may be correspond to40 ms, 80 ms, 160 ms, and the like, for example. In this case, the smallcell may maintain the on-state for broadcasting the DRS for apredetermined time (e.g., one to five subframes). For example, in thecase that the measurement period is 40 ms, the DRS is broadcasted during6 ms while the on-state being maintained, and the off-state may bemaintained for the rest 34 ms.

As such, the duration for transmitting the DRS may be called ameasurement window or a discovery signal occasion. That is, thediscovery signal occasion includes consecutive frame durations (e.g.,one to five consecutive subframe durations), and one discovery signaloccasion may be existed in every measurement period.

A UE performs a measurement based on the DRS that is received from asmall cell, and transmits a measurement report to an eNB (or network).As such, the eNB may recognize the small cell of the most efficientaround the corresponding UE by having the UE measure the DRS transmittedfrom the small cell and report the result to the eNB (or network)regardless of the small cell being in on/off-state. For example, as aresult of the measurement result from the UE, the eNB (network) mayswitch the small cell that is in the off-state but has the great DRSreception power from the UE to the on-state.

In the dense small cell scenario, a UE may be connected to an overlaidmacro cell, and a small cell may be used for data offloading. In such acase, it is preferable that the UE discovers a lot of cells in acommunication range, and the overlaid macro layer selects an optimalcell by considering not only the loading information but also otherinformation.

In other words, the optimal cell for data offloading may not be the cellthat is selected based on the RSRP/RSRQ/RSSI. But rather, the cell thathas low loading or many users may be more preferable in the aspect ofoverall cell management. Accordingly, an advanced discovery proceduremay be considered for searching more cells than being performing theexisting mechanism.

The following characteristics may be considered with respect to theadvanced discovery signal.

-   -   Search more cells than the legacy PSS/SSS/CRS based on cell        discovery    -   Search cells in a time shorter than a subframe    -   Perform a search in a time shorter than a subframe    -   Support a measurement required for the fast time scale on/off        operations

The following several candidates may be considered as the discoverysignal for the advanced discovery algorithm.

(1) PSS/(SSS)+CRS

(2) PSS/(SSS)+CSI-RS

(3) PSS/(SSS)+PRS

(4) Or, the combination of one or more options among (1) to (3) above

It is anticipated that a discovery signal may be used for the coarsetime/frequency tracking, a measurement and a Quasi Co-Located (QCL) case(if it is required). Considering several purposes, the discovery signalshould be designed to satisfy the following requirements.

(1) Under the assumption of very high initial timing error (e.g., ±2.5ms), the discovery signal should support the coarse timesynchronization.

(2) The discovery signal should support the adequate accuracy in ameasurement.

In order to support requirements (1) and (2), it may be assumed that thePSS and/or the SSS may be transmitted.

For a simple configuration, the following limit condition may beconsidered for the period of the advanced discovery signal.

(1) A plurality of measurement gap periods: for example, 40 msec, 80msec, 160 msec or 320 msec (a plurality of new measurement gap periodsmay be considered when a new measurement gap period is set.)

(2) DRS cycle and alignment: 10, 20, 32, 40, 64, 80, 128, 160, 256, 320,512, 640, 1024, 1280, 2048 and 2560 (if a UE may perform a measurementusing the legacy signal for a serving cell, this requirement may beexcluded.)

(3) When the PSS/SSS is transmitted as a discovery signal, the period ofthe discovery signal may be a multiple of 5 msec such that the PSS/SSSthat is transmitted for the advance discovery signal may be replaced bythe PSS/SSS that is transmitted in the on-state. If the discovery signalis not transmitted in the on-state, this requirement may be excluded.

In addition, in order to prevent the influence on the legacy UE,different periods from the PSS/SSS may be considered. That is, thePSS/SSS may be transmitted during the on-state, and an additionalPSS/SSS may be transmitted for the discovery signal transmission. In thecase that the DRS-PSS and the DRS-SSS are additionally transmittedseparately from the PSS/SSS that is transmitted in the on-state, thecell ID acquired from the DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS may be different from the cellID acquired from the PSS/SSS.

The QCL relation will be described. As an example of the case betweentwo antenna ports, in the case that the large-scale property of theradio channel in which a symbol is transmitted through an antenna portmay be inferred from the radio channel in which a symbol is transmittedthrough another antenna port, it may be called that the two antennaports are in the QCL relation (or be QCL). Here, the large-scaleproperty includes one or more of the delay spread, the Doppler spread,the Doppler shift, the average gain and the average delay.

That is, the fact that two antenna ports are in the QCL relation meansthat the large-scale property of the radio channel from an antenna portis the same as the large-scale property of the radio channel fromanother antenna port. Considering a plurality of antenna ports in whichthe RS is transmitted, when the antenna ports in which different twotypes of RSs are transmitted are in the QCL relation, the large-scaleproperty of the radio channel from a type of antenna port may bereplaced by the large-scale property of the radio channel from anothertype of antenna port.

According to the concept of QCL, a UE may not assume the samelarge-scale property between the radio channels from the correspondingantenna ports for non-QCL antenna ports. That is, in this case, the UEshould perform the independent processing for each non-QCL antenna portthat is configured for the timing acquisition and tracking, thefrequency offset and compensation, the delay estimation and the Dopplerestimation, and so on.

Between the antenna ports in which the QCL relation is assumed, there isan advantage that a UE may perform the following operations.

-   -   With respect to the delay spread and the Doppler spread, a UE        may apply the estimated result of the power-delay-profile, the        delay spread and the Doppler spectrum, the Doppler spread for        the radio channel from an antenna port to the Wiener filter and        the like that are used in the channel estimation for the radio        channel from another antenna port.    -   With respect to the frequency shift and the received timing, a        UE may perform the time and frequency synchronization for an        antenna port, and may apply the same synchronization to the        demodulation of another antenna port.    -   With respect to the average reception power, a UE may take an        average of the Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) for two or        more antenna ports.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a small cell cluster/group to whichthe present invention may be applied.

As shown in FIG. 16, the “shared cell-ID scenario” means the scenariothat a plurality of transmission points (TPs) in a specific (small cell)cluster/group uses the same Physical cell-ID (PCID). Even in the casethat the TPs in a cluster/group use the same PCID, each of the clusters(Cluster A and Cluster B) uses different PCIDs, respectively.

In this case, the PCID may mean a Cell-specific ID that is used fortransmitting the PSS/SSS and CRS like the current LTE system, or may beseparate cluster/group ID that is commonly used in a specificcluster/group.

When the TPs belonged to the same cluster/group share the same PCID, thecommon signal (i.e., the PSS/SSS, CRS, etc. that are scrambled using thesame PCID) is transmitted on the same resource from all TPs that havethe same PCID.

As such, a plurality of TPs transmits the same signal using the sameresource, and accordingly, the reception signal quality may be improvedand the shaded area may be prevented. In addition, since a UE recognizesas if a single signal is transmitted from a single TP, the cell researchor the handover is not performed by the UE for the same cluster/group,thereby the control signaling being decreased.

In order to obtain an additional cell-splitting gain between a pluralityof TPs in the cluster/group, the specific identification information maybe added to each of the TPs. This is called the Transmission Point ID(TPID). That is, in the case of transmitting a TP-specific signal (i.e.,the RS that is scrambled with the TPID, etc.), the TP-specific signalmay be transmitted independently to each of the TPs.

For example, each TPID may be used as the sequence scramblinginitialization parameter of the CSI-RS that is transmitted from thecorresponding TP, and may also be used for transmitting anotherTP-specific RS.

Hereinafter, in the present invention, the situation that each TPtransmits the unique TP-specific discovery signal (hereinafter, referredto as the Discovery RS (DRS)) is considered.

Hereinafter, for the convenience of description, it is assumed anddescribed that the DRS transmitted by each TP is the CSI-RS, but thepresent invention is not limited thereto. That is, the TP-specific RSexcept the CSI-RS may be defined and used in the present invention.

The use of the CSI-RS up to 3GPP LTE Release-11 standard is for a UE tomeasure the CSI and to perform the CSI feedback report, and the CSI-RStransmitted in the use is referred to as “FB-CSI-RS” below, for theconvenience of description. In addition, the CSI-RS transmitted as aTP-specific DRS is referred to as “DRS-CSI-RS” that is distinguishedfrom the FB-CSI-RS, for the convenience of description.

In addition, in the present invention, it is also considered that a cellID (physical cell ID (PCID), a scramble ID for the CRS) is used for thescramble sequence ID of the DRS-CSI-RS. The Shared Cell ID exemplifiedabove is a scenario that the TPID and the cell ID (i.e., PCID) may bedifferently given, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Hereinafter, the discovery procedure using the Discovery ReferenceSignal (DRS) proposed in the present disclosure will be described indetail.

As described above, the discovery procedure based on the DRS is referredto as a series of processes performed by a UE including (1) receiving aDRS from at least one (small) cell or a Transport Point (TP), (2)performing a measurement using the received DRS, and (3) transmitting ameasurement report to a BS.

Referring to FIGS. 17 to 20, the measurement method based on the DRSwill be described in more detail.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a measurement method based on the DRSproposed in the present disclosure.

In order to perform a DRS measurement for at least one cell or a TP, aUE receives the DRS measurement timing configuration (DMTC) informationfrom a BS or a network through the RRC signaling or the like.

Here, the UE may classify whether the subframe(s) in a specific durationis a normal subframe (non-MBSFN subframe) or an MBMS Single-FrequencyNetwork (MBSFN) subframe using the DRS measurement timing configuration(DMTC) information.

In the case of the normal subframe, the DRS may be transmitted throughmultiple symbols, and in the case of the MBSFN subframe, the DRS may betransmitted only through a specific symbol.

As an example, in the case of the normal subframe, the DRS may betransmitted through 0^(th), 4^(th), 7^(th) and 11^(th) symbols, in thecase of the MBSFN subframe, the DRS may be transmitted only through0^(th) symbol.

Accordingly, by receiving the DRS measurement timing configurationinformation, the UE may not perform the operation for detecting the DRSunnecessarily on the symbol through which the DRS is not transmitted.

That is, the UE is prevented from performing an unnecessary operationfor detecting the DRS in the MBMS Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN)subframe like the non-MBSFN subframe.

Here, the MBSFN transmission is referred to as the transmission which isseemed that the reception signals for a plurality of MBMS transmissionsare transmitted through a multiple path channels on a singletransmission point, not influencing as the inter-cell interference inthe aspect of the UE, in the case that the MBMS transmissions fromdifferent cells are timely synchronized.

In addition, the UE may receive at least one type of DMTC informationfor each carrier frequency.

The DRS measurement timing configuration (DMTC) information is theinformation related to the time for measuring the DRS, and referred toas the information indicating when the UE performs the Radio ResourceManagement (RRM) measurement based on cell detection and the DRS.

In addition, the UE may detect a plurality of cells based on the DRSmeasurement timing configuration information through the current carrierfrequency.

The DRS measurement timing configuration information includes at leastone of the DRS measurement period information, the DRS measurementoffset information or the DRS measurement duration information.

The DRS measurement period information is the information thatrepresents the generation period of a DRS measurement window (or DRSmeasurement duration; 1710).

The DRS measurement offset information is referred to as the informationindicating the starting point of the DRS measurement window.

The DRS measurement duration information is the information representingthe duration in which the UE measures the DRS measurement, and may beinterpreted as the same meaning as a length of the DRS measurementwindow.

The reference time of the DRS measurement offset may be the time of theprimary serving cell.

As described above, the DMTC information may be configured for eachcarrier frequency or each cell.

In addition, the UE performs the measurement based on the DRS from thestarting time of the DRS measurement window on a specific carrierfrequency.

The DRS measurement window represents the duration for performing theDRS measurement, and may also be represented by the DRS measurementduration.

The starting point of the DRS measurement window may be determinedaccording to the DRS measurement period and the DRS measurement offset.

The DMTC measurement window may represent the duration in which a cellor a TP may transmit the DRS or may mean the duration in which a UE mayreceive the DRS.

Here, the duration for transmitting the DRS or receiving the DRSactually is represented by a DRS occasion.

The measurement window is periodically shown depending on themeasurement period.

Here, the measurement period may be 40 ms, 80 ms, 160 ms and so on.

That is, the UE perform the measurement based on the DRS, which istrying to detect one or more DRS occasion(s) existed in the DRSmeasurement window.

The DRS occasion 1720 means the DRS (burst) transmitted by a specificcell/TP in a specific carrier frequency.

That is, the DRS occasion occurs in a specific duration within the DRSmeasurement window.

In addition, the length (or duration) of the DRS occasion may bedifferently configured for each cell/TP.

Referring to FIG. 17, the DRS occasion length for cell/TP #0 is 2subframes (SFs; 2 ms), the DRS occasion length for cell/TP #1 is 3 SFs(3 ms), and the DRS occasion length for cell/TP #2 is 4 SFs (4 ms).

In particular, cell/TP #0 transmits the DRS (PSS/SSS, CRS, CSI-RS) onsubframe (SF) #0 and SF #1, and cell/TP #1 transmits the DRS (PSS/SSS,CRS, CSI-RS) on SF #0 to SF #2.

Here, cell/TP #1 may consecutively transmit the CRS only on SF #1, andmay not transmit even the CRS on SF #1.

As described above, the DRS, that is, the discovery signal or thediscovery reference signal may be the CRS or the CSI-RS.

In this case, the DRS may also be represented by DRS-CRS or DRS-CSI-RS.

Additionally, the following values may be supported. However, the valuesexcept the following values may be added or a part may be removed fromthe following values.

The period of the DMTC information may be at least one of 40 ms, 80 msor 160 ms.

The DRS occasion duration is the same for all cells on a carrierfrequency.

The DRS occasion (duration) may be defined as below.

FDD system: The duration of DRS occasion can be in the range of 1 and N1subframe and is signaled per frequency to UEs.

TDD system: The duration of DRS occasion can be in the range of 2 and N2subframe and is signaled per frequency to UEs.

N1 and N2 will be equal or less than 5, and RAN 1/4 will decide it.

RAN1 recommends RAN2 to prepare the maximum 5 values for FDD and 4values for TDD for duration of DRS occasion.

RAN4 can limit combinations of duration, period, and BW among aboveconfigurations.

(CSI-RS multiplexing capacity for TDD and FDD should be considered todefine N1 and N2 in RAN1)

Duration of DMTC is fixed to 6 msec.

This should not introduce scheduling restriction in the subframe withina DMTC duration that is not part of measurement gap.

In the case that a UE performs the discovery procedure through the DRS,the UE should acquire the MBSFN subframe configuration information ofthe cell that transmits the CRS in advance.

In the case that the CRS is transmitted through the MBSFN subframe, theUE performs a measurement only on OFDM symbol 0 of the MBSFN subframe.

The reason is because the CRS is transmitted only on OFDM symbol 0 (CRSport 0) in the case of the MBSFN subframe.

Accordingly, in the case that a UE is unable to acquire the MBSFNsubframe configuration information for a neighbor cell in advance, theUE may also perform a measurement on the OFDM symbol except OFDM symbol0 (e.g., OFDM symbol 4, 7, and/or 11 for normal CP, etc.) for the MBSFNsubframe, like the case of the non-MBSFN subframe, and consequently, aproblem may occur that a measurement is performed even on the symbol (orRE) on which there is no CRS transmission.

Accordingly, a UE should receive the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation of a neighbor cell in advance in order to perform ameasurement for neighbor cells except a serving-cell, and theinformation may be transmitted with being included in the neighbor cellconfiguration (NeighCellConfig) information.

The neighbor cell configuration (NeighCellConfig) information may betransmitted through the RRC signaling, and may be included in SIB3,SIB5, MeasObjectEUTRA message as shown in the example below.

SystemInformationBlockType3

The IE SystemInformationBlockType3 contains cell re-selectioninformation common for intra-frequency, inter-frequency and/or inter-RATcell re-selection (i.e. applicable for more than one type of cellre-selection but not necessarily all) as well as intra-frequency cellre-selection information other than neighbouring cell related.

TABLE 6 <SystemInformationBlockType3 information element> -- ASN1STARTSystemInformationBlockType3 ::=  SEQUENCE { ... intraFreqCellReselectionInfo  SEQUENCE {   q-RxLev-Min Q-RxLev-Min,  p-Max P-Max OPTIONAL,   s-IntraSearch ReselectionThreshold  OPTIONAL,-- Need OP   allowedMeasBandwidth  AllowedMeasBandwidth  OPTIONAL, --Need OP   presenceAntennaPort1  PresenceAntennaPort1,   neighCellConfig NeighCellConfig,   t-ReselectionEUTRA  T-Reselection,  t-ReselectionEUTRA-SF  SpeedStateScaleFactors  },  ..., ... }

SystemInformationBlockType5

The IE SystemInformationBlockType5 contains information relevant onlyfor inter-frequency cell re-selection i.e. information about otherE-UTRA frequencies and inter-frequency neighbouring cells relevant forcell re-selection. The IE includes cell re-selection parameters commonfor a frequency as well as cell specific re-selection parameters.

TABLE 7 <SystemInformationBlockType5 information element> ...InterFreqCarrierFreqInfo ::= SEQUENCE {  dl-CarrierFreq ARFCN-ValueEUTRA,  q-RxLev-Min Q-RxLev-Min,  p-Max P-Max OPTIONAL, t-ReselectionEUTRA  T-Reselection,  t-ReselectionEUTRA-SF SpeedStateScaleFactors  threshX-High ReselectionThreshold,  threshX-Low ReselectionThreshold,  allowedMeasBandwidth  AllowedMeasBandwidth, presenceAntennaPort1  PresenceAntennaPort1,  cellReselectionPriority  CellReselectionPriority  neighCellConfig  NeighCellConfig, q-OffsetFreq Q-OffsetRange  DEFAULT dB0,  interFreqNeighCellList  InterFreqNeighCellList  interFreqBlackCellList  InterFreqBlackCellList  ...,  [ [ q-QualMin-r9 Q-QualMin-r9  OPTIONAL, -- Need OP   threshX-Q-r9 SEQUENCE {    threshX-HighQ-r9  ReselectionThresholdQ- r9,    threshX-LowQ-r9  ReselectionThresholdQ-r9   ] OPTIONAL  ] ],  [ [ q-QualMinWB-r11 Q-QualMin-r9  OPTIONAL -- Cond WB-RSRQ  ] ] } ...

MeasObjectEUTRA

TABLE 8 <MeasObjectEUTRA information element> -- ASN1STARTMeasObjectEUTRA ::=  SEQUENCE {  carrierFreq  ARFCN-ValueEUTRA, allowedMeasBandwidth  AllowedMeasBandwidth,  presenceAntennaPort1 PresenceAntennaPort1,  neighCellConfig  NeighCellConfig,  offsetFreqQ-OffsetRange DEFAULT dB0,  -- Cell list  cellsToRemoveList CellIndexList  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON  cellsToAddModList CellsToAddModList  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON  -- Black list blackCellsToRemoveList   CellIndexList  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON blackCellsToAddModList   BlackCellsToAddModList cellForWhichToReportCGI   PhysCellId  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON  ...,  [[measCycleSCell-r10  MeasCycleSCell-r10  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON  measSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10  MeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10OPTIONAL  ] ],  [ [widebandRSRQ-Meas-r11   BOOLEAN OPTIONAL     -- CondWB-RSRQ  ] ] } ...

An example of the neighbor cell configuration (NeighCellConfig)information included in the SIB3, SIB5 and MeasObjectEUTRA messagedescribed above may be as follows.

NeighCellConfig

The IE NeighCellConfig is used to provide the information related toMBSFN and TDD UL/DL configuration of neighbor cells.

TABLE 9 <NeighCellConfig information element> -- ASN1STARTNeighCellConfig ::= BIT STRING (SIZE (2)) -- ASN1STOP

TABLE 10 NeighCellConfig field descriptions NeighCellConfig fielddescriptions neighCellConfig Provides information related to MBSFN andTDD UL/DL configuration of neighbour cells of this frequency 00: Not allneighbour cells have the same MBSFN subframe allocation as the servingcell on this frequency, if configured, and as the PCell otherwise 10:The MBSFN subframe allocations of all neighbour cells are identical toor subsets of that in the serving cell on this frequency, if configured,and of that in the PCell otherwise 01: No MBSFN subframes are present inall neighbour cells 11: Different UL/DL allocation in neighbouring cellsfor TDD compared to the serving cell on this frequency, if configured,and compared to the PCell otherwise For TDD, 00, 10 and 01 are only usedfor same UL/DL allocation in neighbouring cells compared to the servingcell on this frequency, if configured, and compared to the PCellotherwise.

As described above, in the case that the NeighCellConfig information istransmitted to a UE with being included in SIB3 and SIB 5, whenperforming a measurement for the non-serving cells according to thecorresponding NeighCellConfig information, the UE is able to know whichMBSFN subframe configuration the non-serving cells have even beforereceiving the UE-dedicated RRC signaling.

Otherwise, in the case that the UE receives the MeasObjectEUTRA messageincluding the NeighCellConfig information, when performing a measurementfor the non-serving cells according to the NeighCellConfig informationincluded in the MeasObjectEUTRA message for the corresponding frequency(indicated by ARFCN-ValueEUTRA), the UE is able to know which MBSFNsubframe configuration the non-serving cells have.

The NeighCellConfig information may be configured as 2 bits, andtransmitted to the UE with being configured as the value of ‘00’, ‘01’,‘10’ and ‘11’.

The description for the value of ‘00’, ‘01’, ‘10’ and ‘11’ refers to theNeighCellConfig field descriptions described above.

In summary of the description, when a serving cell is configured on thecarrier frequency for performing the DRS measurement (serving cell: f1,f2, f3, DRS measurement carrier: f3), a BS compares the MBSFN subframeconfiguration indicated by the corresponding serving cell (f3) with theMBSFN subframe configuration of the neighbor cells, and transmits theinformation on whether the configuration is the same or not to the UE.

In the case that the serving cell is not configured on the carrierfrequency for performing the DRS measurement (serving cell: f1, f2, DRSmeasurement carrier: f3), the BS compares the MBSFN subframeconfiguration indicated by a PCell with the MBSFN subframe configurationof the neighbor cells, and transmits the information on whether theconfiguration is the same or not to the UE.

In addition, the NeighCellConfig information includes the information ofthe TDD UL/DL configuration of the neighbor cells as well as the MBSFNsubframe configuration of the neighbor cells.

That is, in the case that the NeighCellConfig field value is ‘00’, ‘01’and ‘10’, the same TDD UL/DL allocation may also be applied to thenon-serving cell, and in the case that the NeighCellConfig field valueis ‘11’, the same TDD UL/DL allocation may not be applied to thenon-serving cell.

Next, a method for configuring the NeighCellConfig information in asimpler form using a bitmap and transmitting it through the RRCsignaling will be described.

There may be a restriction in the case of directly applying theNeighCellConfig information described above to the discovery procedureproposed in the present disclosure.

The reason is because the NeighCellConfig information indicates only theinformation on whether the MBSFN subframe configuration of the PCell (orconfigured serving-cell) and the MBSFN subframe configuration of theneighbor cells are the same or different, but for the different case,any detailed information on how different is not provided.

In addition, whereas the MBSFN subframe configuration transmittedthrough the NeighCellConfig information is in the bitmap form of 40 msnormally, the information required within the DRS measurement window(e.g., 1 to 5 ms) proposed in the present disclosure is much shorterthan it.

Accordingly, since it is enough to transmit the related information to aUE by configuring the bitmap of a length shorter than the bitmap lengthof 40 ms, a method for configuring the NeighCellConfig information in asimple form of the bitmap and performing the RRC signaling will bedescribed below.

That is, the method that will be described below represents the methodfor notifying the number of CRS symbols directly or by connecting theMBSFN (MBMS) subframe configuration information with the TDDDL/UL/special subframe configuration information for each of thesubframes included in the DRS measurement window (duration) or the DRSoccasion.

In order for a UE to guarantee the position of the DL subframes and/orthe DwPTS of special subframes (in case of TDD) that may perform the RRM(Radio Resource Management) measurement (e.g., DRS-RSRP, DRS-RSSI,and/or DRS-RSRQ, etc.) based on the DRS, there may be a method forexplicitly signaling the information of the corresponding subframes tothe UE.

However, it may be implemented that (in the TDD) a UE may assume atleast one of the operations below, and accordingly, the UE may performthe RRM measurement based on the DRS in the corresponding subframes atthe least.

If Duration of DRS occasion is configured/signaled to a UE on afrequency with the range of 1 and N_2 subframe, the UE can assume theN_2 subframe is DL subframe or DwPTS of special subframe, so that the UEensures that it can perform DRS-based RRM measurement (e.g., calculatingDRS-RSRP, DRS-RSSI, and/or DRS-RSRQ) on the N_2 subframe.

If Duration of DRS occasion is configured/signaled to a UE on afrequency with the range of 1 and N_2 subframe, the UE can assume the1st subframe is DL subframe (or DwPTS of special subframe), so that theUE ensures that it can perform DRS-based RRM measurement (e.g.,calculating DRS-RSRP, DRS-RSSI, and/or DRS-RSRQ) on the 1st subframe.

If Duration of DRS occasion is configured/signaled to a UE on afrequency with the range of 1 and N_2 subframe, the UE can assume the1st subframe and the N_2 subframe are DL subframe(s) and/or DwPTS ofspecial subframe(s), so that the UE ensures that it can performDRS-based RRM measurement (e.g., calculating DRS-RSRP, DRS-RSSI, and/orDRS-RSRQ) on the 1st subframe and the N_2 subframe.

If Duration of DRS occasion is configured/signaled to a UE on afrequency with the range of 1 and N_2 subframe, the UE can assume the1st subframe is DL subframe, and the N_2 subframe is DL subframe orDwPTS of special subframe, so that the UE ensures that it can performDRS-based RRM measurement (e.g., calculating DRS-RSRP, DRS-RSSI, and/orDRS-RSRQ) on the 1st subframe and the N_2 subframe.

The operations described above may be valid only when the assumption,“Different UL/DL allocation in neighbouring cells for TDD compared tothe serving cell on this frequency, if configured, and compared to thePCell otherwise” is satisfied for the UE to receive the neighCellConfiginformation having the value of ‘11’.

Otherwise, the operations may be limited so as to satisfy theassumption, “Different UL/DL allocation in neighbouring cells for TDDcompared to the serving cell on this frequency, if configured, andcompared to the PCell otherwise” only in the case that the UE receivesthe neighCellConfig information having the value ‘11’.

In the case that the UE receives the neighCellConfig information havinga value (‘00’, ‘01’ or ‘10’) except the value of ‘11’, it may beimplemented to identify the subframe(s) for performing a measurementand/or the DwPTS of special subframe based on the DRS according to theTDD UL/DL configuration that may be assumed (to be the UL/DLconfiguration such as serving cell on this frequency, if configured, andcompared to the PCell otherwise) for the cell that is an object of themeasurement based on the DRS, and accordingly, to follow the operationof performing the DRS measurement.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating another example of a measurementmethod based on the DRS proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 18 shows a method for transmitting the Indication of DRSmeasurement symbol(s) (IDMS; 1810) separately from the neighCellConfiginformation so as to perform a measurement based on the DRS.

The IDMS information, that is, the indication information indicating theDRS measurement symbol may be RRC signaling for each carrier frequencywith being included in the DMTC information.

Otherwise, the IDMS information may be transmitted to a UE through theRRC message separately from the DMTC information.

For example, in the case that the explicit RRC configuration for the DRSoccasion related to the DRS transmission or reception duration isprovided, the IDMS information may be transmitted with being included inthe RRC configuration related to the DRS occasion.

As shown in FIG. 18B, the IDMS information indicating the DRSmeasurement symbol may have the size of 3 bits or 4 bits. This is justan example, and the IDMS information may be configured to be greater orsmaller than 3 bits or 4 bits.

The IDMS information of 4 bits includes an optional bit, and theoptional bit corresponds to the SF on which a synchronization signal istransmitted, and always set to ‘1’. The meaning of the value ‘1’represents that the corresponding SF is the non-MBSFN subframe.

Accordingly, in the case that the IDMS information does not include theoptional bit, the size is 3 bits.

FIG. 18B shows an example of the IDMS information of 3 bits.

Referring to FIG. 18B, the IDMS information may be configured as abitmap form of 3 bits size, and the value may be set to (1 1 0).

Each of the bit value of 3 bits bitmap corresponds to each of thesubframes except the SF (e.g., SF #0) in which the synchronizationsignal (PSS/SSS) is detected within the DRS measurement window.

That is, each of the IDMS value for SF #1 and SF #2 represents ‘1’, andthe IDMS value for SF #3 represents ‘0’.

Here, the meaning of ‘1’ and ‘0’ that represent each of the bit value inthe bitmap of the IDMS information may be defined as below.

However, the values ‘1’ and ‘0’ are just an example and the meaning of‘1’ and ‘0’ may be exchanged or mapped to different values.

-   -   (1) The bit value is ‘1’ in the bitmap of the IDMS information        may be interpreted or defined as at least one of the following        meanings.    -   {circle around (1)} Represent the non-MBSFN subframe (or normal        subframe)    -   {circle around (2)} In the subframe that corresponds to the bit        value, (in the case of the normal CP) it may be defined that CRS        port 0 is transmitted in all of OFDM symbols 0, 4, 7 and 11. In        the case of the extended CP, CRS port 0 is transmitted in all of        OFDM symbols 0, 3, 6 and 9.    -   In the case that CRS port 1 is also able to be detected, it may        be defined that CRS port 1 is transmitted with being v-shifted        in the same OFDM symbols as those of CRS port 0.    -   {circle around (3)} The subframe that corresponds to the bit        value may be defined to be a DL subframe (or special subframe)        in even the TDD.    -   In this case, how many number of the OFDM symbols are available        in the DwPTS region in the case of the special subframe for a        DRS measurement may be separately defined or configured, or a        special default value (e.g., 1 or 3) may be defined.    -   Otherwise, in the case that the NeighCellConfig information is        transmitted to a UE for the corresponding carrier frequency, it        may be defined/configured to as following the NeighCellConfig        information.    -   {circle around (4)} It may be represented that the subframe        corresponding to the bit value is included in a “restricted        measurement set”.    -   That is, it may be implemented that a measurement and a report        are performed only in the subframes included in the        corresponding restricted measurement set when performing the RRM        (and/or RLM) measurement such as RSRQ, RSSI, and/or RSSI, and so        on. It may be the concept for the existing eICIC use, and the        like, for example, the concept that replaces the restricted        measurement set indicated as measSubframePatternNeigh-r10        information in MeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10 which is        included in MeasObjectEUTRA IE.    -   That is, it is indicated by the bitmap (e.g., 1, 2, . . . , or        5-bit bitmap) that is applied only during the DMTC measurement        window and/or DRS occasion, not the bitmap for all subframes        (e.g., represented by a unit of 40 ms) such as the        measSubframePatternNeigh-r10, and the restricted measurement may        be applied only during the corresponding duration. And, a UE may        assume that the corresponding subframe is the non-MBSFN        subframes.    -   (2) In the case that the bit value is ‘0’ in the bitmap of the        IDMS information, it may be interpreted/defined as one of the        following meanings.    -   {circle around (1)} Represent the MBSFN subframe    -   {circle around (2)} In the subframe that corresponds to the bit        value, (in the case of the normal CP) it may be defined that CRS        port 0 is transmitted only in OFDM symbol 0. Represent that CRS        port 0 is transmitted only in OFDM symbol 0 in the case of the        extended CP. In the case that CRS port 1 is also available to be        detected, it may represented that CRS port 1 is transmitted with        being v-shifted in the same OFDM symbols as those of CRS port 0.    -   {circle around (3)} The subframe corresponding to the bit value        may represent a UL subframe (or special subframe) in the case of        TDD.    -   In this case, how many number of the OFDM symbols are available        in the DwPTS region in the case of the special subframe for a        DRS measurement may be separately defined or configured, or a        special default value (e.g., 1 or 3) may be defined.    -   Otherwise, in the case that the NeighCellConfig information is        provided for the corresponding carrier frequency, it may be        defined/configured as following the NeighCellConfig information.    -   {circle around (4)} It may be represented that the corresponding        subframe is not included in the restricted measurement set.

The third meaning ({circle around (3)}) in each of the meaning of thevalues ‘1’ and ‘0’, that is, the meaning related to “special subframe”may be defined to be included in either one of ‘1’ or ‘0’.

As described above, in the case that a UE receives the IDMS informationthrough the RRC signaling separately from the DMTC information, whenperforming a measurement based on the DRS, it may be defined that the UEmay ignore the NeighCellConfig information transmitted from a DRSmeasurement related BS, and perform the DRS measurement based on theIDMS information.

That is, the IDMS information may override the NeighCellConfiginformation which is already received.

However, the UE may be defined/configured to perform the DRS measurementbased on the NeighCellConfig information for the special subframerelated operation, and so on, exceptionally.

As described above, the size of bitmap that represents the IDMSinformation may be 4 bits.

In this case, for the IDMS information, the value ‘1’ or ‘0’ is setexplicitly to the subframe on which the synchronization signal (PSS/SSS)is transmitted.

As another example, a method for implicitly indicating to the UE may beavailable by always setting ‘1’ to the subframe on which thesynchronization signal (PSS/SSS) is transmitted (e.g., at least oneoperation among the description in relation to ‘1’ above is alwaysapplied to the corresponding subframe), by being excluded in the IDMSbitmap for the subframe on which the synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) istransmitted.

Next, in the case that the synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) istransmitted in different subframes for each cell/TP, a method forconfiguring the DRS measurement related information will be described.

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating another example of a measurementmethod based on the DRS proposed in the present disclosure.

That is, FIG. 19 shows a method for performing the DRS measurement inthe case that the synchronization signal is transmitted in differentsubframes for each cell/TP within the DRS measurement window.

Here, it is assumed that the IDMS information is transmitted to a UE bybeing configured as the bitmap of 3 bits.

As an example, the bitmap of the IDMS information may be expressed by(x, y, z), and the meaning of each of the bits (x, y, z) may beinterpreted as below.

Here, in the case of the subframe on which the synchronization signal(PSS/SSS) is detected, it is assumed that the bit value of the bitmaprepresenting the IDMS information that corresponds to the correspondingsubframe has ‘1’ always.

It is assumed that at least one operation among the meanings of thevalue ‘1’ described above is applied to the subframe that corresponds tothe value ‘1’.

-   -   ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ are sequentially mapped from the subframe (SF        #N+1) which is the next to the subframe (SF #N) on which the        synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) is detected.

For example, in the case of cell/TP #0 in FIG. 19, ‘x’ is mapped to SF#1, ‘y’ is mapped to SF #2, and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #3, respectively.

That is, each of the values of ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ represents the IDMSinformation in SF #1, SF #2 and SF #3, respectively.

Here, in the case that the last duration (subframe) of the DMTCmeasurement window is shown, the next is mapped to the starting duration(subframe) of the DMTC measurement window (in the form of cyclic shift).

For example, in the case of cell/TP #1 in FIG. 19, ‘x’ is mapped to SF#1, ‘y’ is mapped to SF #2, and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #9.

In the case of cell/TP #2, is mapped to SF #1, ‘y’ is mapped to SF #8,and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #9.

-   -   As another interpretation, it may be defined/configured that it        is mapped from the first subframe shown in the DMTC measurement        window, but has the form that the subframe (SF #N) on which the        synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) is detected is skipped (or        omitted).

For example, in the case of cell/TP #0 in FIG. 19, ‘x’ is mapped to SF#1, ‘y’ is mapped to SF #2, and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #3.

In the case of cell/TP #1, is mapped to SF #9, ‘y’ is mapped to SF #1,and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #2.

In the case of cell/TP #2, ‘x’ is mapped to SF #8, ‘y’ is mapped to SF#9, and ‘z’ is mapped to SF #1.

Here, as described above, the UE may interpret the bitmap mapping of theIDMS information within the DRS measurement window, but it may bedefined that the UE may interpret the bitmap mapping of the IDMSinformation regardless of the DRS measurement window duration.

For example, in the case that a BS transmits the configuration of theDRS occasion (for a specific cell/TP) to a UE by the explicit RRCsignaling and the IDMS information is included in the DRS occasion, theUE may apply the bitmap mapping of the IDMS information during thesubframe duration indicated by the DRS occasion.

Even in this case, the subframe on which the synchronization signal(PSS/SSS) is transmitted at the DRS occasion may be excluded from thebitmap of the IDMS information.

For example, when assuming that the duration of the DRS occasion is Kms, the size of the bitmap of the IDMS information may be K. Or, in thecase that the number of subframe on which the synchronization signal(PSS/SSS) is transmitted is p, the size of the bitmap of the IDMSinformation may be K-p.

Here, with respect to the subframe on which the synchronization signal(PSS/SSS) is transmitted, the bit value may be set to ‘1’ always.

In the case of the FDD, the number of p values may be one, and in thecase of the TDD, the number of p values may be two.

In the case that it is defined that the subframe on which thesynchronization signal (PSS/SSS) is transmitted is transmitted in asingle subframe even for the TDD, the number of p values may be one.

As another embodiment, the use of the bitmap of the IDMS information maybe defined or configured to indicate whether even a single MBSFNsubframe is existed in the subframes which are belonged to the DMTCmeasurement window duration or the DRS occasion duration in order todecrease the signaling for transmitting the IDMS information.

As another embodiment, the case in relation to the DL/UL configurationin the TDD will be described for each carrier frequency.

First, it may be assumed that the DL/UL configuration of the TDD is thesame for each carrier frequency.

Accordingly, in the case that a specific carrier frequency is configuredfor the serving cell of a UE, the TDD DL/UL configuration of theneighbor cells on the specific carrier frequency follows the TDD DL/ULconfiguration of the corresponding serving cell. In the case that aspecific carrier frequency is not configured for the serving cell of aUE, the TDD DL/UL configuration of the neighbor cells on thecorresponding carrier frequency may be differently configured from theTDD DL/UL configuration of the serving cell and given to the UE.

In the case that the UE is unable to know the TDD DL/UL configuration ofneighbor cells/CPs on the specific carrier frequency, the UE may assumethat the CRS is transmitted only in the subframe on which thesynchronization signal (PSS/SSS) is transmitted.

For the RRC signaling of the current NeighCellConfig information, thevalue ‘00’, ‘01’ and ‘10’ (value of NeighCellConfig information) arevalid only in the case that the DL/UL configuration is the same for theTDD.

However, in the case that the FDD is the PCell in the FDD-TDD CAenvironment, even though transmitting the NeighCellConfig information tothe UE, it is unable to provide the new information in relation to theTDD DL/UL configuration on the specific carrier frequency to the UE.

Accordingly, hereinafter, in the case that the FDD is the PCell in theFDD-TDD CA environment, and in the case that the NeighCellConfiginformation, especially, the value of NeighCellConfig information have‘00’, ‘01’ and ‘10’, a method for defining the corresponding value,which is different from the description above, will be described.

In the case that the PCell is made up of the FDD and the specificcarrier frequency is made up of the TDD, the value of NeighCellConfiginformation may be defined or interpreted as shown in Table 11 below.

Here, the specific carrier frequency means the carrier frequency onwhich the UE measures the DRS.

TABLE 11 Value Description 00 Not all neighbour cells have the sameMBSFN subframe allocation as the serving cell on this frequency, ifconfigured, and as the PCell otherwise 01 if the serving cell on thisfrequency is configured, DL subframe allocation of neighbor cells areidentifical or supersets of that of the serving cell on this frequency(and MBSFN configuration can be different). Otherwise, follow Rel-8definition 10 if the serving cell on this frequency is configured,normal DL subframe allocation (i.e., non-MBSFN subframe, non-specialsubframe) of neighbor cells are identical or supersets of that in theserving cell on this frequency. Otherwise, follow Rel-8 definition 11Different UL/DL allocation in neighbouring cells for TDD compared to theserving cell on this frequency, if configured, and compared to the PCellotherwise

Table 11 may be identically applied to the case that the PCell is theTDD. In the case that a UE acquires the MBSFN subframe structure (orconfiguration) of neighbor cells/TPs through the RRC signaling definedin 3GPP Rel-8 (LTE) standard or a new RRC signaling, the way how the CRSis transmitted in the subframe in which the CSI-RS (DRS-CSI-RS) for theDRS use (whether it is transmitted on four symbols or only one symbol)may be defined/configured through the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation.

That is, by identifying the MBSFN subframe configuration information forthe neighbor cells/TPs acquired through the RRC signaling, the UE mayknow the transmission form of the CRS (the number of symbols on whichthe CRS is transmitted in a specific subframe).

As a result of the identification, in the case that the DRS measurementsubframe corresponds to the MBSFN subframe, the CRS is transmitted ononly one symbol (e.g., symbol 0) of the DRS measurement subframe, andthe UE may perform the DRS measurement through the corresponding symbol.

Otherwise, (as a default operation) it may be defined/configured inadvance that the DRS-CSI-RS is not transmitted in the MBSFN subframe.

As described above, the reason why the DRS-CSI-RS is not transmitted inthe MBSFN subframe in advance is because it may be difficult for a BS(or network) to transmit a cell-specific/TP-specific DRS-CSI-RS to theUE by considering whether all of the UE receives an individual PhysicalMulticast Channel (PMCH).

That is, only the UEs that do not receive the PMCH may receive theDRS-CSI-RS in the MBSFN subframe, but it may be impossible for the BS totransmit the cell-specific/TP-specific DRS-CSI-RS to all UEs byidentifying whether all UEs are in such a situation.

Accordingly, a UE assumes that the subframe in which the DRS-CSI-RS istransmitted is the non-MBSFN subframe always, and the UE identifies thatthe CRS is transmitted in the form of normal subframe in the subframe onwhich the DRS-CSI-RS is detected.

That is, the UE may know that the CRS is transmitted through multipleOFDM symbols in the subframe on which the DRS-CSI-RS is detected, andmay perform a DRS measurement through the corresponding OFDM symbols.

As described above, in the subframes included in the DRS measurementwindow or the DRS occasion duration, the IDMS information in the bitmapform that indicates the number of DRS measurement symbols in eachsubframe may be defined/configured as the use of indicating a specificrestricted measurement (e.g., the use as the same as the restrictedmeasurement set in the conventional eICIC, etc.) as well as the use ofnotifying the number of CRS symbols in each subframe directly ornotifying it with being connected with the MBSFN configuration and theTDD DL/UL/special subframe configuration.

As an example, the “measurement subframe set” may be configured bygathering the subframes indicated by ‘1’ in the IDMS information of thebitmap form, or it may be implemented that at least one RRM measurement(and/or RLM measurement) among RSRQ and RSSI or RSS is performed onlyfor the measurement subframe set, and that the measurement result isreported.

In the case that the bitmap of the IDMS information is transmitted to aUE with being included in the MeasObjectEUTRA IE described above (e.g.,the information such as the DMTC period, offset, window, and/or, DRSoccasion are included in the MeasObjectEUTRA IE), the UE recognizes thatthe bitmap of the IDMS information included in the receivedMeasObjectEUTRA IE replaces the information ofMeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10, measSubframePatternNeigh-r10 and/ormeasSubframeCellList-r10 defined in the existing LTE release-10.

Accordingly, in the case that the UE receives the bitmap of the IDMSinformation together with the information(MeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10, measSubframePatternNeigh-r10 and/ormeasSubframeCellList-r10) defined in the existing LTE release-10, the UEdetermines that the UE receives wrongly configured information.

That is, in the case that the bitmap of the IDMS information istransmitted to a UE with being included in the MeasObjectEUTRA IE, theexisting information related to MeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10 maynot be transmitted to the UE.

Or, in the case that the UE receives both of the bitmap of the IDMSinformation and the existing information related toMeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10, the UE may assume that the existingmeasSubframeCellList-r10 is not in relation to the cell for themeasurement based on the DRS.

In other words, it may be recognized that the cells in the existingmeasSubframeCellList-r10 are legacy cells and are objects for performingthe legacy CRS-based measurement, and the information in relation to theIDMS information bitmap, DMTC period, offset, window, DRS occasion, andso on is the information which is applied to the cells except the cellindicated by measSubframeCellList-r10.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method forperforming a measurement based on the DRS proposed in the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 20, a UE receives the DRS Measurement TimingConfiguration (DMTC) information in relation to the DRS measurement timein order to perform the measurement using the DRS from a BS (step,S2010).

The DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information includes at leastone of the DRS measurement duration information that represents a lengthof the DRS measurement window, the DRS measurement offset informationthat represents the starting point of the DRS measurement window or theDRS measurement period information that represents the occurrence periodof the DRS measurement window.

In addition, the DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information mayfurther include the DRS occasion information that represents theduration in which the DRS is transmitted or received within the DRSmeasurement window.

Furthermore, the DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information may beconfigured for each cell and/or for each carrier frequency.

Later, the UE receives the DRS from one or more cells based on thereceived DRS Measurement Timing Configuration information, particularly,through a specific carrier frequency within the DRS measurement window(step, S2020).

Here, the UE may further receive the MBSFN subframe configurationinformation related to the MBMS Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN)subframe configuration for the one or more cells from the BS.

The MBSFN subframe configuration information is referred to as theinformation that represents whether the subframe within the DRSmeasurement window is the MBSFN subframe or the non-MBSFN subframe.

In the case of the non-MBSFN subframe, the UE receives the DRS throughmultiple symbols of the corresponding subframe, and in the case of theMBSFN subframe, the UE receives the DRS only in a single symbol of thecorresponding subframe.

In addition, the MBSFN subframe configuration information may beincluded in the neighbor cell configuration (NeighCellConfig)information.

The neighbor cell configuration (NeighCellConfig) information may betransmitted through System Information Block (SIB) 3, SIB5 orMeasObjectEUTRA.

Additionally, the UE may further receive the Indication of DRSMeasurement Symbol (IDMS) information that indicates the DRS measurementsymbol from the BS.

The Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol information may be expressed bya bitmap form, and each bit value of the DRS Measurement Symbolinformation corresponds to each of the subframes within the DRSmeasurement window.

The Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol information may not include thebit value that corresponds to the subframe on which the synchronizationsignal is received.

In addition, the Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol information may bereceived from the BS or network separately from the MBSFN subframeconfiguration information.

Later, the UE performs a measurement through the received DRS (step,S2030).

Then, the UE reports the measurement result to the BS (step, S2040).

General Apparatus to which the Present Invention May be Applied

FIG. 21 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communicationapparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 21, the wireless communication system includes a BS(eNB) 2110 and a plurality of user equipments (UEs) 2120 located withinthe region of the eNB 2110.

The eNB 2110 includes a processor 2111, a memory 2112 and a radiofrequency unit 2113. The processor 2111 implements the functions,processes and/or methods proposed in FIGS. 1 to 20 above. The layers ofwireless interface protocol may be implemented by the processor 2111.The memory 2112 is connected to the processor 2111, and stores varioustypes of information for driving the processor 2111. The RF unit 2113 isconnected to the processor 2111, and transmits and/or receives radiosignals.

The UE 2120 includes a processor 2121, a memory 2122 and a radiofrequency unit 2123. The processor 2121 implements the functions,processes and/or methods proposed in FIGS. 1 to 20 above. The layers ofwireless interface protocol may be implemented by the processor 2121.The memory 2122 is connected to the processor 2121, and stores varioustypes of information for driving the processor 2121. The RF unit 2123 isconnected to the processor 2121, and transmits and/or receives radiosignals.

The memories 2112 and 2122 may be located interior or exterior of theprocessors 2111 and 2121, and may be connected to the processors 2111and 2121 with well known means. In addition, the eNB 2110 and/or the UE2120 may have a single antenna or multiple antennas.

The embodiments described so far are those of the elements and technicalfeatures being coupled in a predetermined form. So far as there is notany apparent mention, each of the elements and technical features shouldbe considered to be selective. Each of the elements and technicalfeatures may be embodied without being coupled with other elements ortechnical features. In addition, it is also possible to construct theembodiments of the present invention by coupling a part of the elementsand/or technical features. The order of operations described in theembodiments of the present invention may be changed. A part of elementsor technical features in an embodiment may be included in anotherembodiment, or may be replaced by the elements and technical featuresthat correspond to other embodiment. It is apparent to constructembodiment by combining claims that do not have explicit referencerelation in the following claims, or to include the claims in a newclaim set by an amendment after application.

The embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by variousmeans, for example, hardware, firmware, software and the combinationthereof. In the case of the hardware, an embodiment of the presentinvention may be implemented by one or more application specificintegrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digitalsignal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs),field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a processor, a controller, amicro controller, a micro processor, and the like.

In the case of the implementation by the firmware or the software, anembodiment of the present invention may be implemented in a form such asa module, a procedure, a function, and so on that performs the functionsor operations described so far. Software codes may be stored in thememory, and driven by the processor. The memory may be located interioror exterior to the processor, and may exchange data with the processorwith various known means.

It will be understood to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications and variations can be made without departing from theessential features of the inventions. Therefore, the detaileddescription is not limited to the embodiments described above, butshould be considered as examples. The scope of the present inventionshould be determined by reasonable interpretation of the attachedclaims, and all modification within the scope of equivalence should beincluded in the scope of the present invention.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

The method for performing a measurement based on the discovery signal ina wireless communication system of the present invention has beendescribed mainly with the example applied to 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, butmay also be applied to various wireless communication systems except the3GPP LTE/LTE-A system.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A method for performing, by a userequipment (UE), a measurement using a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS)in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving,from a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) signalingrelated to a DRS Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC); receiving,from one or more cells, the DRS in a DRS occasion of a DRS measurementwindow for a specific carrier frequency based on the received RRCsignaling; performing a measurement using the received DRS; andreporting, to the BS, a result of the measurement, wherein the RRCsignaling includes DRS measurement offset information related to astarting point of the DRS measurement window and DRS measurement periodinformation related to an occurrence period of the DRS measurementwindow, wherein a first subframe of the DRS measurement window isdetermined based on the DRS measurement offset information and the DRSmeasurement period information, and wherein a period of the DRSmeasurement window includes 40ms, 80ms and 160ms.
 2. The method of claim1, wherein the RRC signaling further includes DRS occasion informationrelated to a duration in which the DRS is transmitted or received in theDRS measurement window.
 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:receiving, from the BS, Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol (IDMS)information related to a position of a DRS measurement symbol in one ormore subframes included in the DRS measurement window for the specificcarrier frequency.
 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the Indication ofDRS Measurement Symbol information is expressed by a bitmap form.
 5. Themethod of claim 4, wherein each bit value of the Indication of DRSMeasurement Symbol information corresponds to each of the one or moresubframes included in the DRS measurement window.
 6. The method of claim4, wherein the Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol information does notinclude a bit value corresponding to a subframe on which asynchronization signal is received.
 7. The method of claim 4, whereineach bit value of the Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol informationrepresents whether a subframe corresponding to the each bit value is aMultimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) Single-Frequency Network(MBSFN) subframe or a non-MBSFN subframe.
 8. The method of claim 3,wherein the Indication of DRS Measurement Symbol information is receivedseparately from Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS)Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration information. 9.The method of claim 1, wherein the DRS is a signal for discoveringon-state or off-state of the one or more cells, and is either one ofCommon Reference Signal (CRS) or a Channel State Information-ReferenceSignal (CSI-RS).
 10. A user equipment (UE) for performing a measurementusing a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) in a wireless communicationsystem, the UE comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit andreceive a radio signal; and a processor functionally connected to thetransceiver, wherein the processor is configured to: control thetransceiver to receive, from a base station (BS), a radio resourcecontrol (RRC) signaling related to a DRS Measurement TimingConfiguration (DMTC), control the transceiver to receive, from one ormore cells, the DRS in a DRS occasion of a DRS measurement window for aspecific carrier frequency based on the received RRC signaling, performa measurement using the received DRS, and report, to the BS, a result ofthe measurement, wherein the RRC signaling includes DRS measurementoffset information related to a starting point of the DRS measurementwindow and DRS measurement period information related to an occurrenceperiod of the DRS measurement window, wherein a first subframe of theDRS measurement window is determined based on the DRS measurement offsetinformation and the DRS measurement period information, and wherein aperiod of the DRS measurement window includes 40ms, 80ms and 160ms.